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fijis
  • n  a group of more than 800 islands (100 inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific; larger islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are of volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs; smaller islands are coral
  • n  an independent state within the British Commonwealth located on the Fiji Islands
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filaggrin
  • n  the main protein of the keratohyalin granules
    the specific target of the immune response in rheumatoid arthritis is filaggrin
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filago
  • n  any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads
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filago germanica
  • n  (literally an undutiful herb) a variety of cotton rose
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filagree
  • n  delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire)
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filament
  • n  a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
  • n  the stalk of a stamen
  • n  a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)
  • n  a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current
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filaree
  • 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
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filaria
  • 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
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