Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to, of the nature of, or caused by Filaria.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl. & Med.) Of, pertaining to, or caused by, filariæ and allied parasitic worms.
  • adjective Straight, as if in a line.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective medicine Of or pertaining to the microscopic parasitic worms known as filaria, or an infestation thereof.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective related to or infested with or transmitting parasitic worms especially filaria

Etymologies

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From filaria +‎ -al.

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