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Trematodea :: Trematodea (n. pl.) An extensive order of parasitic worms. They are found in the internal cavities of animals belonging to all classes. Many species are found, also, on the gills and skin of fishes. A few species are parasitic on man, and some, of which the fluke is the most important, are injurious parasites of domestic animals. The trematodes usually have a flattened body covered with a chitinous skin, and are furnished with two or more suckers for adhesion. Most of the species are hermaphrodi

Polystomata :: Polystomata (n. pl.) A division of trematode worms having more two suckers. Called also Polystomea and Polystoma.

Hob :: Hob (n.) A threaded and fluted hardened steel cutter, resembling a tap, used in a lathe for forming the teeth of screw chasers, worm wheels, etc..

Nonagrian :: Nonagrian (n.) Any moth of the genus Nonagria and allied genera, as the spindleworm and stalk borer..

Inchworm :: Inchworm (n.) The larva of any geometrid moth. See Geometrid.

Wormy :: Wormy (superl.) Like or pertaining to a worm; earthy; groveling.

Bollworm :: Bollworm (n.) The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops..

Sericulture :: Sericulture (n.) The raising of silkworms.

Trichina :: Trichina (n.) A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvae is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their

Caddis :: Caddis (n.) The larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm..

Worming :: Worming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wor.

Dupion :: Dupion (n.) A double cocoon, made by two silkworms..

Worm :: Worm (v. t.) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out..

Absinthial :: Absinthial (a.) Of or pertaining to wormwood; absinthian.

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

Worble :: Worble (n.) See Wormil.

Agastric :: Agastric (a.) Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm..

Sandworm :: Sandworm (n.) The chigoe, a species of flea..

Whipworm :: Whipworm (n.) A nematode worm (Trichocephalus dispar) often found parasitic in the human intestine. Its body is thickened posteriorly, but is very long and threadlike anteriorly..

Strawy :: Strawworm (n.) A caddice worm.

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