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Gourdworm :: Gourdworm (n.) The fluke of sheep. See Fluke.

Slugworm :: Slugworm (n.) Any caterpillar which has the general appearance of a slug, as do those of certain moths belonging to Limacodes and allied genera, and those of certain sawflies..

Cadeworm :: Cadeworm (n.) A caddice. See Caddice.

Strontia :: Strongyloid (n.) A strongyloid worm.

Planaria :: Planaria (n.) Any species of turbellarian worms belonging to Planaria, and many allied genera. The body is usually flat, thin, and smooth. Some species, in warm countries, are terrestrial..

Copperworm :: Copperworm (n.) The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper..

Rostellum :: Rostellum (n.) A small beaklike process or extension of some part; a small rostrum; as, the rostellum of the stigma of violets, or of the operculum of many mosses; the rostellum on the head of a tapeworm..

Wheatworm :: Wheatworm (n.) A small nematode worm (Anguillula tritici) which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm..

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

Gastrotricha :: Gastrotricha (n. pl.) A group of small wormlike animals, having cilia on the ventral side. The group is regarded as an ancestral or synthetic one, related to rotifers and annelids..

Lumbricus :: Lumbricus (n.) A genus of annelids, belonging to the Oligochaeta, and including the common earthworms. See Earthworm..

Bitter :: Bitter (v. t.) Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes..

Orvet :: Orvet (n.) The blindworm.

Wriggle :: Wriggle (v. i.) To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions, like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about..

Saddle :: Saddle (n.) The clitellus of an earthworm.

D8gregarin91 :: d8Gregarin91 (n. pl.) An order of Protozoa, allied to the Rhizopoda, and parasitic in other animals, as in the earthworm, lobster, etc. When adult, they have a small, wormlike body inclosing a nucleus, but without external organs; in one of the young stages, they are amoebiform; -- called also Gregarinida, and Gregarinaria..

Verge :: Verge (n.) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix..

Cocoon :: Cocoon (n.) The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms..

Myriapoda :: Myriapoda (n. pl.) A class, or subclass, of arthropods, related to the hexapod insects, from which they differ in having the body made up of numerous similar segments, nearly all of which bear true jointed legs. They have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and numerous trachaae, similar to those of true insects. The larvae, when first hatched, often have but three pairs of legs. See Centiped, Galleyworm, Milliped..

Cestoidea :: Cestoidea (n. pl.) A class of parasitic worms (Platelminthes) of which the tapeworms are the most common examples. The body is flattened, and usually but not always long, and composed of numerous joints or segments, each of which may contain a complete set of male and female reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See Tapeworm..

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