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Gapeworm :: Gapeworm (n.) The parasitic worm that causes the gapes in birds. See Illustration in Appendix.

Worm :: Worm (n.) To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope..

Bagworm :: Bagworm (n.) One of several lepidopterous insects which construct, in the larval state, a baglike case which they carry about for protection. One species (Platoeceticus Gloveri) feeds on the orange tree. See Basket worm..

Arenicolite :: Arenicolite (n.) An ancient wormhole in sand, preserved in the rocks..

Helminthology :: Helminthology (n.) The natural history, or study, of worms, esp. parasitic worms..

Tinea :: Tinea (n.) A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. See Ringworm, and Sycosis..

Wormed :: Wormed (imp. & p. p.) of Wor.

Ascarid :: Ascarid (n.) A parasitic nematoid worm, espec. the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, often occurring in the human intestine, and allied species found in domestic animals; also commonly applied to the pinworm (Oxyuris), often troublesome to children and aged persons..

Tapeworm :: Tapeworm (n.) Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Taenia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adh

Lumbric :: Lumbric (n.) An earthworm, or a worm resembling an earthworm..

Slowworm :: Slowworm (v. t.) A lecertilian reptile; the blindworm.

Actinotrocha :: Actinotrocha (n. pl.) A peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles..

Epipteric :: Epipteric (a.) Pertaining to a small Wormian bone sometimes present in the human skull between the parietal and the great wing of the sphenoid.

Helminthite :: Helminthite (n.) One of the sinuous tracks on the surfaces of many stones, and popularly considered as worm trails..

Cingulum :: Cingulum (n.) The clitellus of earthworms.

Wireworm :: Wireworm (n.) One of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub..

Boud :: Boud (n.) A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc..

Dewworm :: Dewworm (n.) See Earthworm.

Reptant :: Reptant (a.) Creeping; crawling; -- said of reptiles, worms, etc..

Taenia :: Taenia (n.) A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.

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