noun
- 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.
- synonyms: redstem storksbill, alfilaria, alfileria, filaree, clocks, pin grass, pin clover, Erodium cicutarium
- Slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects. .
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