What's the difference between backworm and filanders?

Backworm


Definition:

  • (n.) A disease of hawks. See Filanders.

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Filanders


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) 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.

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