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• n  European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage
• n  slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects

• Thus far Government sanitary brigades have only sized up the enemya kind of filaria or threadworm, whose eggs are spread from victim to victim by gnats.
• It sucks a sleeper's blood, and with it some filaria larvae.
• Another type of filaria, mosquito-borne, is widely prevalent in the West Indies, causes elephantiasis, grotesque swelling of the arms, legs, buttocks, sexual organs.

• redstem storksbill
• alfilaria
• alfileria
• filaree
• clocks
• pin grass
• pin clover
• Erodium cicutarium