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11Acorn worm — Taxobox name = Enteropneusta regnum = Animalia phylum = Hemichordata classis = Enteropneusta subdivision ranks = Families subdivision = Harrimaniidae Protoglossidae Ptychoderidae Saxipendiidae Spengelidae Torquaratoridae The Acorn worms or… …
12Mongolian death worm — This article is about the legendary monster in Mongolia. For the William Gibson novel, see Spook Country. For the 2010 film, see Mongolian Death Worm (film). An interpretation of the Mongolian Death Worm by Belgian painter Pieter Dirkx The… …
13Pompeii worm — Taxobox name = Pompeii worm image width = 200px regnum = Animalia phylum = Annelida classis = Polychaeta ordo = Terebellida familia = Alvinellidae genus = Alvinella species = A. pompejana binomial = Alvinella pompejana binomial authority =… …
14Star worm — Star Star (st[aum]r), n. [OE. sterre, AS. steorra; akin to OFries. stera, OS. sterro, D. ster, OHG. sterno, sterro, G. stern, Icel. stjarna, Sw. stjerna, Dan. stierne, Goth. sta[ i]rn[=o], Armor. & Corn. steren, L. stella, Gr. asth r, a stron,… …
15tongue worm — noun wormlike arthropod having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth; parasitic in nasal sinuses of mammals • Syn: ↑pentastomid • Hypernyms: ↑arthropod • Member Holonyms: ↑Pentastomida, ↑subphylum Pentastomida * * * …
16CRIMSON WORM — CRIMSON WORM, biblical tola at shani (Heb. תּוֹלַעַת שָׁנִי), which yields a dye, called in the Bible shani, tola, karmil, and in rabbinic literature zehorit, which was extracted from the body of the crimson worm (carmine), the Kermes biblicus. A …
17Basket worm — Basket Bas ket, n. [Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English.] 1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow …
18ribbon 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 …
19Screw worm — Screw Screw (skr[udd]), n. [OE. scrue, OF. escroue, escroe, female screw, F. [ e]crou, L. scrobis a ditch, trench, in LL., the hole made by swine in rooting; cf. D. schroef a screw, G. schraube, Icel. skr[=u]fa.] 1. A cylinder, or a cylindrical… …
20Parasitic worm (disambiguation) — Parasitic worm may refer to:*Helminth collectively describes the unrelated worm like groups platyhelminthes and nematoda *Platyhelminthes, or flatworms the phyla which contains the parasitic tapeworms and flukes *Nematoda, or roundworms the most… …
