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filanders
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filanders, n. pl. [F. filandres, fr. L. filum thread.].
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. [1913 Webster]
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