Definition of worm

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Worm (n.) Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm.

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Vermivorous :: Vermivorous (a.) Devouring worms; feeding on worms; as, vermivorous birds..
Gordius :: Gordius (n.) A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in which they deposit their eggs; -- called also hair eel, hairworm, and hair snake, from the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs..
Shipworm :: Shipworm (n.) Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo..
Arenicolite :: Arenicolite (n.) An ancient wormhole in sand, preserved in the rocks..
Palmer :: Palmer (n.) A palmerworm.
Cocoonery :: Cocoonery (n.) A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons..
Witworm :: Witworm (n.) One who, or that which, feeds on or destroys wit..
Nematelminthes :: Nematelminthes (n. pl.) An ordr of helminths, including the Nematoidea and Gordiacea; the roundworms..
Aptera :: Aptera (n. pl.) Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linnaen order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, centipeds, and even worms. These animals are now placed in several distinct classes and orders..
Sporozoa :: Sporosac (n.) An early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia..
Worm :: Worm (n.) Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm..
Absinthe :: Absinthe (n.) The plant absinthium or common wormwood.
Muckworm :: Muckworm (n.) One who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices; a miser.
Reptant :: Reptant (a.) Creeping; crawling; -- said of reptiles, worms, etc..
Apoda :: Apoda (n.) A group of worms without appendages, as the leech..
Worm :: Worm (n.) A being debased and despised.
Myzostomata :: Myzostomata (n. pl.) An order of curious parasitic worms found on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side..
Maltworm :: Maltworm (n.) A tippler.
Scolex :: Scolex (n.) The embryo produced directly from the egg in a metagenetic series, especially the larva of a tapeworm or other parasitic worm. See Illust. of Echinococcus..
Retinaculum :: Retinaculum (n.) One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.
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