Definition of worm

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

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Vermiculous :: Vermiculous (a.) Containing, or full of, worms; resembling worms..
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..
Ringworm :: Ringworm (n.) A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are distinguished as Tinea circinata, Tinea tonsurans, etc., but all are caused by the same parasite (a species of Trichophyton)..
Cast :: Cast (n.) That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm..
Absinthin :: Absinthin (n.) The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium).
Lumbriciform :: Lumbriciform (a.) Resembling an earthworm; vermiform.
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..
Dracunculus :: Dracunculus (n.) The Guinea worm (Filaria medinensis).
Squirr :: Squirm (v. i.) To twist about briskly with contor/ions like an eel or a worm; to wriggle; to writhe.
Sporocyst :: Sporocyst (n.) An asexual zooid, usually forming one of a series of larval forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and other parasitic worms. The sporocyst generally develops from an egg, but in its turn produces other larvae by internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. See Redia..
Worm :: Worm (n.) The thread of a screw.
Worm-shell :: Worm-shell (n.) Any species of Vermetus.
Verge :: Verge (n.) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix..
Wormil :: Wormil (n.) Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble..
Lampyris :: Lampyris (n.) A genus of coleopterous insects, including the glowworms..
Serpula :: Serpula (n.) Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts..
Bombycinous :: Bombycinous (a.) Being of the color of the silkworm; transparent with a yellow tint.
Earcockle :: Earcockle (n.) A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms..
Thousand Legs :: Thousand legs () A millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also thousand-legged worm..
Boottopping :: Boottopping (n.) The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off..
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