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▪ I. filander1|fɪˈlændə(r)|
Chiefly pl. Forms: 5 fylaundris, 7 felanders, fillanders, -enders, fylanders, 6– filander(s.
[a. OF. filandre:—popular L. *filandula, dim. f. (lāna) fīlanda wool to be spun.
The word is used in mod.F. for a gossamer thread, also for various fibres in animal and vegetable organisms.]
In pl., Thread-like intestinal worms causing a disease in hawks; the disease so caused.
1486Bk. St. Albans B vij b, A medecyne for wormys in an hawke wiche sekenesse is called the Fylaundris. 1575Turberv. Faulconrie 252 These filanders..are smal as threedes. 1615Latham Falconry 7 These occasions of extraordinary and vntimely heate, may..ingender the fillanders. a1682Sir T. Browne Hawks Misc. (1684) 115 This..may probably destroy that obstinate Disease of the Filander or back-worm. 1891Harting Gloss. in Bibl. Accipitraria 222 Filanders, intestinal worms.
▪ II. † fiˈlander2 Obs. rare.
[ad. late L. phellandrion, Gr. ϕελλάνδριον.]
The plant Stavesacre (Delphinium Staphisagria).
1575Turberv. Faulconrie 286 To scowre by medicine. Take..graines of filander otherwise called Stauesaker.
▪ III. filander3|fɪˈlændə(r)|
A name given to a species of Macropus (M. Brunii). Also, filander kangaroo.
1737tr. C. De Bruyn's Trav. Mosc. & Persia II. 101 When I was at our general's country seat [in Java] I saw a certain animal called Filander. 1841Waterhouse Marsupialia 225 Filander Kangaroo, Macropus Brunii.
▪ IV. filander, v.
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