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Thousand Legs :: Thousand legs () A millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also thousand-legged worm..

Vermiculous :: Vermiculous (a.) Containing, or full of, worms; resembling worms..

Honeycomb :: Honeycomb (n.) Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb..

Earthmad :: Earthmad (n.) The earthworm.

Vermiculate :: Vermiculate (a.) Crawling or creeping like a worm; hence, insinuating; sophistical..

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

Wriggle :: Wriggle (v. t.) To move with short, quick contortions; to move by twisting and squirming; like a worm..

Wormul :: Wormul (n.) See Wornil.

Acephalocyst :: Acephalocyst (n.) A larval entozoon in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin..

Vermiform :: Vermiform (a.) Resembling a worm in form or motions; vermicular; as, the vermiform process of the cerebellum..

Turn :: Turn (v. t.) To change the form, quality, aspect, or effect of; to alter; to metamorphose; to convert; to transform; -- often with to or into before the word denoting the effect or product of the change; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect; to turn green to blue; to turn prose into verse; to turn a Whig to a Tory, or a Hindu to a Christian; to turn good to evil, and the like..

Worm :: Worm (n.) A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below..

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

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.

Milleped :: Milleped (n.) A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm..

Wireworm :: Wireworm (n.) A galleyworm.

Grubworm :: Grubworm (n.) See Grub, n., 1..

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..

Tussah Silk :: Tussah silk () A silk cloth made from the cocoons of a caterpillar other than the common silkworm, much used in Bengal and China..

Tongueworm :: Tongueworm (n.) Any species of Linguatulina.

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