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. |
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. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
worm | screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack |
worm fence snake fence snakeail fence Virginia fence | rail fence consisting of a zigzag of interlocking rails |
worm gear | gear consisting of a shaft with screw thread (the worm) that meshes with a toothed wheel (the worm wheel), changes the direction of the axis of rotary motion |
worm wheel | gear with the thread of a worm |
worm | a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network, worms take advantage of automatic file sending and receiving features found on many computers |
worm louse insect dirt ball | a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect |
Guinea worm disease Guinea worm dracunculiasis | a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin |
writhe wrestle wriggle worm squirm twist | to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling), The prisoner writhed in discomfort, The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace |
vermiform worm-shaped | resembling a worm, long and thin and cylindrical |
vermiculate worm-eaten wormy | infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms |