Word Meanings - FILARIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. See Guinea worm.

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• WORMSEED
  Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant having small lanceolate leaves.
• GUINEA
  1. A district on the west coast of Africa (formerly noted for its export of gold and slaves) after which the Guinea fowl, Guinea grass, Guinea peach, etc., are named. 2. A gold coin of England current for twenty-one shillings sterling, or about
• GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
  A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.
• PARASITIC; PARASITICAL
  Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See Parasite, 2 & 3. Parasitic gull, Parasitic jager. See Jager. -- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ness, n. (more info) 1.
• SPECIES
  A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
• SLENDER
  Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. -- Slen"der*ly, adv. -- Slen"der*ness, n. (more info) slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin, slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen,
• PARASITICIDE
  Anything used to destroy parasites. Quain.
• VARIOUS
  1. Different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors. So many and so various laws are given. Milton. A wit as various, gay, grave, sage, or wild. Byron. 2. Changeable; uncertain; inconstant;
• VARIOUSLY
  In various or different ways.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• NEMATODE
  See NEMATOID
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• ANGUINEAL
  Anguineous.
• OVARIOUS
  Consisting of eggs; as, ovarious food. Thomson.
• CONSANGUINEAL
  Of the same blood; related by birth. Sir T. Browne.
• SUBSPECIES
  A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but based on characters more important than those which characterize ordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.