segmented worm
1segmented worm — noun worms with cylindrical bodies segmented both internally and externally • Syn: ↑annelid, ↑annelid worm • Derivationally related forms: ↑annelid (for: ↑annelid) • Hypernyms: ↑ …
2worm — [wʉrm] n. [ME < OE wyrm, serpent, dragon, akin to Ger wurm < IE base * wer , to turn, bend > WARP, L vermis, worm] 1. any of many slender, soft bodied animals, some segmented, that live by burrowing underground, in water, or as parasites …
3worm — wormer, n. wormlike, wormish, adj. /werrm/, n. 1. Zool. any of numerous long, slender, soft bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids. 2.… …
4Worm — A worm is a common name given to a diverse group of invertebrate animals that have a long, soft body and no legs. There are hundreds of thousands of species of worms, 2,700 of these are earthworms. Animals which are commonly called worms include… …
5worm — n. & v. n. 1 any of various types of creeping or burrowing invertebrate animals with long slender bodies and no limbs, esp. segmented in rings or parasitic in the intestines or tissues. 2 the long slender larva of an insect, esp. in fruit or wood …
6worm — 1. In anatomy, any structure resembling a w., e.g., the midline part of the cerebellum in the forms of “vermis” and “lumbrical.” 2. Term once used to designate any member of the invertebrate group or former subkingdom Vermes, a collective term …
7worm lizard — noun a subterranean burrowing reptile resembling an earthworm, being blind, apparently segmented, and typically without limbs. [Suborder Amphisbaenia: numerous species.] …
8annelid worm — noun worms with cylindrical bodies segmented both internally and externally • Syn: ↑annelid, ↑segmented worm • Derivationally related forms: ↑annelid (for: ↑annelid) • Hypernyms: ↑ …
9oligochaete worm — noun hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body • Syn: ↑oligochaete • Hypernyms: ↑annelid, ↑annelid worm, ↑segmented worm • Hyponyms: ↑earthworm, ↑ …
10polychaete worm — noun chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles • Syn: ↑polychaete, ↑polychete, ↑polychete worm • Hypernyms: ↑annelid, ↑annelid worm, ↑segmented worm …
