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filariae

filariae is the plural of filaria.

Meaning of filaria

Noun

filaria (plural filariae or filarias)

  1. Any of the parasitic nematode worms of superfamily Filarioidea that lives in the blood of vertebrates and is transmitted by insects: the cause of filariasis.

Questions about filariae

What is filariae the plural of?
Filariae is the plural of filaria.

Words near filariae in the dictionary

  1. filaree
  2. filarees
  3. filaria
  4. filariad
  5. filariads
  6. filariae
  7. filarial
  8. filarian
  9. filarias
  10. filariases
  11. filariasis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filariae (page history and authors); filaria (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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