Army worm
() A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and other crops. The common army worm of the northern United States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm. |
Army worm
() The larva of a small two-winged fly (Sciara), which marches in large companies, in regular order. See Cotton worm, under Cotton. |
Galley-worm
(n.) A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along the sides |
Grugru worm
() The larva or grub of a large South American beetle (Calandra palmarum), which lives in the pith of palm trees and sugar cane. It is eaten by the natives, and esteemed a delicacy. |
Hair
(n.) The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body. |
Hair
(n.) One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin. |
Hair
(n.) Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes |
Hair
(n.) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth. |
Hair
(n.) An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar). |
Hair
(n.) A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm. |
Hair
(n.) A haircloth. |
Hair
(n.) Any very small distance, or degree |
Hair'sbreadth
() The diameter or breadth of a hair |
Hair-brown
(a.) Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green. |
Hair grass
() A grass with very slender leaves or branches |
Hair-salt
(n.) A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers. |
Lady's hair
() A plant of the genus Briza (B. media) |
Maid's hair
() The yellow bedstraw (Galium verum). |
Worm
(n.) A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like. |
Worm
(n.) Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals |
Worm
(n.) Any helminth |
Worm
(n.) Any annelid. |
Worm
(n.) An insect larva. |
Worm
(n.) Same as Vermes. |
Worm
(n.) An internal tormentor |
Worm
(n.) A being debased and despised. |
Worm
(n.) Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm |
Worm
(n.) The thread of a screw. |
Worm
(n.) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms. |
Worm
(n.) A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog |
Worm
(n.) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still. |
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. |
Worm
(v. i.) To work slowly, gradually, and secretly. |
Worm
(v. t.) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means |
Worm
(v. t.) To clean by means of a worm |
Worm
(n.) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness. |
Worm
(n.) To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable |
Worm-eaten
(a.) Eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms |
Worm-eaten
(a.) Worn-out |
Worm-shaped
(a.) Shaped like a worm |
Worm-shell
(n.) Any species of Vermetus. |
hair care
haircare
hairdressing | care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair |
| hair coloring | the act of dyeing or tinting one's hair |
slender salamander
worm salamander | any of several small slim salamanders of the Pacific coast of the United States |
| worm lizard | a lizard of the genus Amphisbaena, harmless wormlike limbless lizard of warm or tropical regions having concealed eyes and ears and a short blunt tail |
thunder snake
worm snake Carphophis amoenus | small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States |
blind snake
worm snake | wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes |
tongue worm
pentastomid | wormlike arthropod having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth, parasitic in nasal sinuses of mammals |
brewer's mole
hair-tailed mole
Parascalops breweri | mole of eastern North America |
| guard hair | coarse hairs that form the outer fur and protect the underfur of certain mammals |
| hair | a filamentous projection or process on an organism |
whisker
vibrissa
sensory hair | a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat |
| worm family | a family of worms |
| worm genus | a genus of worms |
| worm | any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes, also many insect larvae |
helminth
parasitic worm | worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes |
acanthocephalan
spiny-headed worm | any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines |
| bladder worm | encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm |
fluke
trematode
trematode worm | parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host |
ribbon worm
nemertean
nemertine
proboscis worm | soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract |
beard worm
pogonophoran | slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering, lives on the deep ocean bottom |
nematode
nematode worm
roundworm | unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends, mostly free-living but some are parasitic |
vinegar eel
vinegar worm
Anguillula aceti
Turbatrix aceti | minute eelworm that feeds on organisms that cause fermentation in e.g. vinegar |
Guinea worm
Dracunculus medinensis | parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates |
annelid
annelid worm
segmented worm | worms with cylindrical bodies segmented both internally and externally |
oligochaete
oligochaete worm | hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body |
a earthworm
angleworm
fishworm
fishing worm
wiggler nightwalker
nightcrawler
crawler
dew worm
red worm | terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil, often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet, used as bait by anglers |
polychaete
polychete
polychaete worm
polychete worm | chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles |
onychophoran
velvet worm
peripatus | any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms |
earless seal
true seal
hair seal | any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers |
apple maggot
railroad worm
Rhagoletis pomonella | larvae bore into and feed on apples |
measuring worm
inchworm
looper | small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments, mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae |
armyworm army worm
Pseudaletia unipuncta | noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain |
tobacco hornworm
tomato worm
Manduca sexta | large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tobacco and related plants, similar to tomato hornworm |
tomato hornworm
potato worm
Manduca quinquemaculata | large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tomato and potato plants, similar to tobacco hornworm |
peanut worm
sipunculid | small unsegmented marine worm that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body giving the appearance of a peanut |
| worm fish | poorly known family of small tropical shallow-water fishes related to gobies |
camel's hair
camelhair | a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel |
cross hair
cross wire | either of two fine mutually perpendicular lines that cross in the focus plane of an optical instrument and are use for sighting or calibration, he had the target in his cross hairs |
curler
hair curler
roller crimper | a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it, a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight |
haircloth
hair | cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair, used for upholstery or stiffening in garments |
hairdressing
hair tonic
hair oil
hair grease | a toiletry for the hair |
hairpiece
false hair
postiche | a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment |
| hair shirt | an uncomfortable shirt made of coarse animal hair, worn next to the skin as a penance |
| hair slide | a decorative hinged clip that girls and women put in their hair to hold it in place |
| hair space | (printing) the narrowest of the spaces used to separate words or letters |
| hair spray | toiletry consisting of a commercial preparation that is sprayed on the hair to hold it in place |
| hair trigger | a gun trigger that responds with little pressure |
hand blower
blow dryer
blow drier
hair dryer
hair drier | a hand-held electric blower that can blow warm air onto the hair, used for styling hair |
mousse
hair mousse
hair gel | toiletry consisting of an aerosol foam used in hair styling |
sable sable brush
sable's hair pencil | an artist's brush made of sable hairs |