worm

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worm[1,noun] worm[2,transitive verb] Wormian bone acanthocephalan barber's pole worm bladder worm bloodworm bowel worm cecal worm cysticercus dracunculiasis eye worm giant kidney worm guinea worm guinea worm disease horsehair worm kidney worm large-mouthed bowel worm lesser stomach worm Medina worm nodular disease nodular worm palisade worm red worm spiny-headed worm stomach worm thorn-headed worm tongue worm

Main Entry: ¹worm
Pronunciation: wrm
Function: noun
1 : any of various relatively small elongated usually naked and soft-bodied parasitic animals (as of the phylum Platyhelminthes)
2 : HELMINTHIASIS -- usually used in plural <a dog with worms>
- worm·like /-lk/ adjective