VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / filanders

Thesaurus: filanders

A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm.

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

filamentsdefinitionblooddefinitioncharacterizeddefinitioncoagulateddefinitiondiseasedefinitionhawksdefinitionpresencedefinitionveindefinitionwormsdefinitionbackwormdefinitioncalleddefinitionrupturedefinitionsmalldefinitionbrownedefinitionsirdefinitionthreadlikedefinitionfalconrydefinitionfilanderfamilyFilago germanicaneighborfilagreeneighborfilamentneighborfilamentaryneighborfilamentlikeneighborfilamentoidneighborfilamentousneighborfilametoidneighborfilarneighborfilareeneighbor

Definitions

  1. n. pl. A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm.
  2. A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm. Sir T. Browne.
  3. A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of smallthreadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from therupture of a vein; -- called also backworm. Sir T. Browne.
  4. filanders (uncountable) (falconry) A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small thread-like worms and of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein.