flat worm
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flat|worm — «FLAT WURM», noun. any one of a group of worms with thin flat bodies, that live in water or as parasites in or on some animals; platyhelminth. Tapeworms and planarians are flatworms … Useful english dictionary
Flat Holm — Infobox Islands name = Flat Holm image caption = image size = 240px locator map custom = no native name = Ynys Echni native name link = nickname = location = Bristol Channel coordinates = coord|51.37687| 3.12207|type:landmark… … Wikipedia
Worm — A worm is a common name given to a diverse group of invertebrate animals that have a long, soft body and no legs. There are hundreds of thousands of species of worms, 2,700 of these are earthworms. Animals which are commonly called worms include… … Wikipedia
tape|worm — «TAYP WURM», noun. a long, flat worm that lives as a parasite in the intestines of man and other vertebrates; cestode. Tapeworms consist of many separate parts and have no digestive tract. »Man gets his commonest tapeworms from insufficiently… … Useful english dictionary
tape·worm — /ˈteıpˌwɚm/ noun, pl worms [count] : a long, flat worm that lives in the intestines of people and animals … Useful english dictionary
SQL slammer (computer worm) — The SQL slammer worm is a computer worm that caused a denial of service on some Internet hosts and dramatically slowed down general Internet traffic, starting at 05:30 UTC on January 25, 2003. It spread rapidly, infecting most of its 75,000… … Wikipedia
ribbon worm — any of various slender, unsegmented marine worms of the phylum Nemertea, being able to contract and stretch to an extreme extent. [1850 55] * * * ▪ invertebrate also called bootlace worm, proboscis worm, nemertine, or nemertean any member … Universalium
rag worm — ▪ annelid also called clam worm (genus Nereis) any of a group of mostly marine or shore worms of the class Polychaeta (phylum Annelida). A few species live in fresh water. Other common names include mussel worm, pileworm, and sandworm. Rag… … Universalium
zipper worm — in angling, a plastic worm with a flat but ridged body (like a clothes zipper) … Dictionary of ichthyology
flatworm — flat•worm [[t]ˈflætˌwɜrm[/t]] n. ivt platyhelminth • Etymology: 1895–1900 … From formal English to slang
