filarious
UK/fɪˈlɛəɹi.əs/US/fɪˈlɛɹi.əs/
filarious is the alternative form of filarial.
Meaning of filarial
Adjective
filarial (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the microscopic parasitic worms known as filaria, or an infestation thereof.
- 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 266
- Straight, as if in a line.
- the filarial flight of birds
Words that rhyme with filarious
- cibarious
- scarious
- Stradivarius
- tartareous
- vagarious
- vicarious
- Aquarius
- atrabilarious
- calcareous
- contrarious
- hilarious
- lampadarius
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- librarius
- malarious
- multifarious
- omnifarious
- precarious
- riparious
- testudinarious
- various
- acinarious
- adversarious
- anticarious
- apocrisarius
- apocrisiarius
- arbitrarious
- arenarious
- argillocalcareous
- armarius
- assarius
- atramentarious
- Belisarius
- bordarius
- burglarious
- caeremoniarius
- calcarious
- carious
- confessarius
- corneo-calcareous
- cotarius
- duplicarius
- fimetarious
- frumentarious
- glareous
- howlarious
- lapidarious
- librarious
- multivarious
- nectareous
- nectarious
- nefarious
- nightmarious
- noncalcareous
- noncarious
- nongregarious
- nonmalarious
- nonvicarious
- octarius
- octofarious
- octonarius
Questions about filarious
- What is filarious the alternative form of?
- Filarious is the alternative form of filarial.
- How do you pronounce filarious?
- Filarious is pronounced /fɪˈlɛəɹi.əs/ (UK).
Words near filarious in the dictionary
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