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. |
Wormed
(imp. & p. p.) of Worm |
Worming
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Worm |
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 |
Wormed
(a.) Penetrated by worms |
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 |