Filanders \Fil"an*ders\, n. pl. [F. filandres, fr. L. filum
thread.] (Falconry)
A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small
threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from
the rupture of a vein; -- called also {backworm}. --Sir T.
Browne.
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