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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name given by Le Brun (1711) to the short-tailed kangaroo, Halmalurus asiaticus or Macropus bruni. See philander.
  • noun The small intestinal worm which causes the disease called filanders.
  • noun plural A disease in hawks, caused by small intestinal worms. Also felanders.
  • noun The external membrane of gut scraped off in the manufacture of catgut. Commonly as French, filandre.
  • A simplified spelling of philander.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A species of kangaroo (Macropus Brunii), inhabiting New Guinea.

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  • noun archaic A pademelon.

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