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English → English (gcide) Definition: backworm Filanders \Fil"an*ders\, n. pl. [F. filandres, fr. L. filum thread.] (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. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]