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- DictionaryWorm/wərm/
noun
- 1. any of a number of creeping or burrowing invertebrate animals with long, slender soft bodies and no limbs.
- 2. a weak or despicable person (used as a general term of contempt): informal, derogatory "it was unbearable that such a worm could be so successful"
verb
- 1. move with difficulty by crawling or wriggling: "I wormed my way along the roadside ditch"
- 2. insinuate one's way into: "the educated dealers may later worm their way into stockbroking"
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2 days ago · What is a worm? A worm includes any invertebrate animal that has a long body with no appendages. They cover over 1 million different types of invertebrates, and they are considered invasive species. They are divided into three groups, which include the flatworm, the roundworm, and the segmented worm.
4 days ago · Many caterpillars within the order Lepidoptera are called worms, such as the measuring worm, silkworm, and armyworm.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 days ago · parasitism, relationship between two species of plants or animals in which one benefits at the expense of the other, sometimes without killing the host organism. The life cycle of the hard tick Ixodes scapularis, a carrier of the bacterium that causes Lyme disease in humans, requires two years for completion.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
19 hours ago · Worms in Human Types and Pictures | New Health Advisor. Parasitic worms and other unhealthy organisms can infect humans. They transfer through contaminated food and water. These worms love the environment in your intestinal tract and can survive for months and even years without being noticed.
5 days ago · The meaning of THE WORM TURNS is —used to talk about how a situation can suddenly change so that a person who has been weak, unlucky, unsuccessful, etc., can become strong, lucky, successful, etc.. How to use the worm turns in a sentence.
5 days ago · Maggot, soft-bodied grub that is the larva of many dipterous flies. About half of fly species produce larvae that would be categorized as maggots; other flies beget more specialized and distinct larvae.
5 days ago · Caenorhabditis elegans ( / ˌsiːnoʊræbˈdaɪtəs ˈɛləɡæns / [6]) is a free-living transparent nematode about 1 mm in length [7] that lives in temperate soil environments. It is the type species of its genus. [8] The name is a blend of the Greek caeno- (recent), rhabditis (rod-like) [9] and Latin elegans (elegant).
