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

Worm-eaten :: Worm-eaten (a.) Worn-out; old; worthless.

Cingulum :: Cingulum (n.) The clitellus of earthworms.

Glowbard :: Glowbard (n.) The glowworm.

Hydatid :: Hydatid (n.) A membranous sac or bladder filled with a pellucid fluid, found in various parts of the bodies of animals, but unconnected with the tissues. It is usually formed by parasitic worms, esp. by larval tapeworms, as Echinococcus and Coenurus. See these words in the Vocabulary..

Worm :: Worm (n.) Same as Vermes.

Pinworm :: Pinworm (n.) A small nematoid worm (Oxyurus vermicularis), which is parasitic chiefly in the rectum of man. It is most common in children and aged persons..

Proscolex :: Proscolex (n.) An early larval form of a trematode worm; a redia. See Redia.

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

Girdle :: Girdle (n.) The clitellus of an earthworm.

Taenia :: Taenia (n.) A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.

Spoonwort :: Spoonworm (n.) A gephyrean worm of the genus Thalassema, having a spoonlike probiscis..

Caseworm :: Caseworm (n.) A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice.

Worm :: Worm (n.) To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope..

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

Santonin :: Santonin (n.) A white crystalline substance having a bitter taste, extracted from the buds of levant wormseed and used as an anthelmintic. It occassions a peculiar temporary color blindness, causing objects to appear as if seen through a yellow glass..

Worm :: Worm (v. t.) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b)..

Ophiomorpha :: Ophiomorpha (n. pl.) An order of tailless amphibians having a slender, wormlike body with regular annulations, and usually with minute scales imbedded in the skin. The limbs are rudimentary or wanting. It includes the caecilians. Called also Gymnophiona and Ophidobatrachia..

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..

Spanworm :: Spanworm (n.) The larva of any geometrid moth, as the cankeworm; a geometer; a measuring worm..

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