Meanings
- not comparablemedicineOf or pertaining to the microscopic parasitic worms known as filaria, or an infestation thereof.
From a cosmetic standpoint, the filarial diseases [...] were especially unfortunate.
1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 2972 more examples
The knowledge of a filarial infection of the region of the eye seems to date from the time of Magellan.
1914, Edward Rhodes Stitt, The Diagnostics and Treatment of Tropical Diseases, page 266Other helminths or wormlike fellow travellers became common in the human gut, including the Enterobius (pinworm or threadworm), the yards-long tapeworm, and the filarial worms which cause elephantiasis and African river blindness.
1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 18 - not comparableStraight, as if in a line.
the filarial flight of birds
Origin
- Englishfilaria
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishfilarial
Translations
French filarial
- filarialof or pertaining to filaria
Italian filariale
- filarialeof or pertaining to filaria
Portuguese filarial
- filarialof or pertaining to filaria
Spanish filarial
- filarialof or pertaining to filaria
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with filarial
Cite this entry
filarial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/filarial
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