Definitions for Filaria

Filaria fi·lar·i·a

Spelling: [fi-lair-ee-uh]
IPA: /fɪˈlɛər i ə/

Filaria is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in Filaria (aafiilr).

Definitions for Filaria

noun

  1. any small, threadlike roundworm of the family Filariidae and related families, carried as a larva by mosquitoes and parasitic when adult in the blood or tissues of vertebrates.

Origin of Filaria

New Latin (1787), equivalent to Latin fīl(um) thread + -āria -aria

Examples for Filaria

Several other species of filaria have been found in the human body, but are little known and very rare in their occurrence.

Redi also noticed a species of filaria beneath the skin of the lion.

The guinea-worm (filaria medinensis) is a very troublesome parasite, which sometimes grows to a length of three feet.

From an earwig I obtained a filaria nearly five inches in length.

He has definite information with regard to bubonic plague and the filaria medinensis.

The embryos of the filaria megastoma of the horses stomach died at 47 C.

He has definite information with regard to Bubonic plague and the filaria medinensis.

filaria bancrofti in its adult state, lives in the lymphatics of man.

I believe it to have been a specimen of filaria sanguinis hominis.

Some of the Annelida, as filaria and Lumbricus, he also regarded as insects.

Word Value for Filaria
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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