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Definition of worm
Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of worm is as below...
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..
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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
Ascarid
::
Ascarid
(n.) A
parasitic
nematoid
worm,
espec.
the
roundworm,
Ascaris
lumbricoides,
often
occurring
in the human
intestine,
and
allied
species
found in
domestic
animals;
also
commonly
applied
to the
pinworm
(Oxyuris),
often
troublesome
to
children
and aged
persons..
Fluke
::
Fluke (n.) A
parasitic
trematode
worm of
several
species,
having
a flat,
lanceolate
body and two
suckers.
Two
species
(Fasciola
hepatica
and
Distoma
lanceolatum)
are found in the
livers
of
sheep,
and
produce
the
disease
called
rot..
Globard
::
Globard
(n.) A
glowworm.
Apoda
::
Apoda (n.) A group of worms
without
appendages,
as the
leech..
Strongyloid
::
Strongyloid
(a.) Like, or
pertaining
to,
Strongylus,
a genus of
parasitic
nematode
worms of which many
species
infest
domestic
animals.
Some of the
species,
especially
those
living
in the
kidneys,
lungs,
and
bronchial
tubes,
are often very
injurious..
Sericulture
::
Sericulture
(n.) The
raising
of
silkworms.
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..
Hairworm
::
Hairworm
() A
nematoid
worm of the genus
Gordius,
resembling
a hair. See
Gordius..
Bookworm
::
Bookworm
(n.) Any larva of a
beetle
or moth, which is
injurious
to
books.
Many
species
are
known..
Jointworm
::
"Jointworm
(n.) The larva of a
small,
hymenopterous
fly
(Eurytoma
hordei),
which is found in
gall-like
swellings
on the
stalks
of
wheat,
usually
at or just above the first
joint.
In some parts of
America
it does great
damage
to the
crop..
Malacobdella
::
Malacobdella
(n.) A genus of
nemertean
worms,
parasitic
in the gill
cavity
of clams and other
bivalves.
They have a large
posterior
sucker,
like that of a
leech.
See
Illust.
of
Bdellomorpha..
Absinthe
::
Absinthe
(n.) The plant
absinthium
or
common
wormwood.
Myzostomata
::
Myzostomata
(n. pl.) An order of
curious
parasitic
worms found on
crinoids.
The body is short and
disklike,
with four pairs of
suckers
and five pairs of
hook-bearing
parapodia
on the under
side..
Bookworm
::
Bookworm
(n.) A
student
closely
attached
to books or
addicted
to
study;
a
reader
without
appreciation.
Stahlian
::
Stagworm
(n.) The larve of any
species
of
botfly
which is
parasitic
upon the stag, as
/strus,
or
Hypoderma,
actaeon,
which
burrows
beneath
the skin, and
Cephalomyia
auribarbis,
which lives in the
nostrils..
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..
Bdellomorpha
::
Bdellomorpha
(n.) An order of
Nemertina,
including
the large
leechlike
worms
(Malacobdella)
often
parasitic
in
clams..
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..
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..
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