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11worm fever — noun A feverish condition in children ascribed to intestinal worms • • • Main Entry: ↑worm …
12worm — n. & v. n. 1 any of various types of creeping or burrowing invertebrate animals with long slender bodies and no limbs, esp. segmented in rings or parasitic in the intestines or tissues. 2 the long slender larva of an insect, esp. in fruit or wood …
13worm — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. earthworm, angleworm; maggot, larva, grub, caterpillar; insect; crawler, nightcrawler; flatworm, platyhelminth, tapeworm, cestode, nematode, round worm, ascarid, pinworm, annelid; wretch; screw,… …
14worm — noun 1》 an earthworm or other creeping or burrowing invertebrate animal having a long, slender soft body and no limbs. [Annelida, Nematoda (roundworms), Platyhelminthes (flatworms), and other phyla.] ↘(worms) intestinal or other internal… …
15worm powder — noun Etymology: worm (I) : an anthelmintic powder * * * worm powder noun A drug that expels intestinal worms, a vermifuge • • • Main Entry: ↑worm …
16worm — wÉœrm /wÉœËm n. type of legless invertebrate; servile person, weasel ; screwing; computer virus which usually copies itself through a network and wastes resources or causes damage (Computers) v. creep, crawl (like a worm); squeeze cunningly;… …
17Parasitic worm — See also Parasitic worm (disambiguation) Parasitic worms or helminths are a division of eukaroytic parasites that, unlike external parasites such as lice and fleas, live inside their host.cite journal |author=Maizels RM, Yazdanbakhsh M… …
18Velvet worm — Taxobox name = Onychophora fossil range = Cambrian – Recent image width = 250px image caption = Velvet worm regnum = Animalia phylum = Onychophora phylum authority = Grube, 1853 subdivision ranks = Extant families subdivision = Peripatidae… …
19guinea worm — a long, slender, roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa. Also, Guinea worm. [1690 1700] * * * or medina worm or dragon worm Nematode (Dracunculus medinensis) that is… …
20nodular worm — n any of several nematode worms of the genus Oesophagostomum that are parasitic in the large intestine of ruminants and swine where they cause swellings of the intestinal wall resembling abscesses called also nodule worm * * * any nematode of the …
