Filanders
Fil´an`ders
n. pl. | 1. | (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. |
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.