▪ 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.
| 1486 Bk. St. Albans B vij b, A medecyne for wormys in an hawke wiche sekenesse is called the Fylaundris. 1575 Turberv. Faulconrie 252 These filanders..are smal as threedes. 1615 Latham Falconry 7 These occasions of extraordinary and vntimely heate, may..ingender the fillanders. a 1682 Sir T. Browne Hawks Misc. (1684) 115 This..may probably destroy that obstinate Disease of the Filander or back-worm. 1891 Harting Gloss. in Bibl. Accipitraria 222 Filanders, intestinal worms. |
▪ II. † fiˈlander2 Obs. rare.
[ad. late L. phellandrion, Gr. ϕελλάνδριον.]
The plant Stavesacre (Delphinium Staphisagria).
| 1575 Turberv. 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.
| 1737 tr. 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. 1841 Waterhouse Marsupialia 225 Filander Kangaroo, Macropus Brunii. |
▪ IV. filander, v.
see philander.