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Thunderworm :: Thunderworm (n.) A small, footless, burrowing, snakelike lizard (Rhineura Floridana) allied to Amphisbaena, native of Florida; -- so called because it leaves its burrows after a thundershower..

Bookworm :: Bookworm (n.) Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known..

Lumbriciform :: Lumbriciform (a.) Resembling an earthworm; vermiform.

Muscardine :: Muscardine (n.) A disease which is very destructive to silkworms, and which sometimes extends to other insects. It is attended by the development of a fungus (provisionally called Botrytis bassiana). Also, the fungus itself..

Pilidium :: Pilidium (n.) The free-swimming, hat-shaped larva of certain nemertean worms. It has no resemblance to its parent, and the young worm develops in its interior..

Absinthium :: Absinthium (n.) The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood..

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

Balanoglossus :: Balanoglossus (n.) A peculiar marine worm. See Enteropneusta, and Tornaria..

Wolf :: Wolf (a.) A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries..

Lugworm :: Lugworm (n.) A large marine annelid (Arenicola marina) having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back. It is found burrowing in sandy beaches, both in America and Europe, and is used for bait by European fishermen. Called also lobworm, and baitworm..

Gilttail :: Gilttail (n.) A yellow-tailed worm or larva.

Mesozoa :: Mesozoa (n. pl.) A group of very lowly organized, wormlike parasites, including the Dicyemata. They are found in cephalopods. See Dicyemata..

Vermiculite :: Vermiculite (n.) A group of minerals having, a micaceous structure. They are hydrous silicates, derived generally from the alteration of some kind of mica. So called because the scales, when heated, open out into wormlike forms..

Gid :: Gid (a.) A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the C/nurus, a larval tapeworm, in the brain. See C/nurus..

Oligochaeta :: Oligochaeta (n. pl.) An order of Annelida which includes the earthworms and related species.

Metamere :: Metamere (n.) One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva..

Vermifuge :: Vermifuge (n.) A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.

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..

Helminthoid :: Helminthoid (a.) Wormlike; vermiform.

Bombycinous :: Bombycinous (a.) Being of the color of the silkworm; transparent with a yellow tint.

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