DRACUNCULUS MEDINENSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dracunculus medinensis mean? 

• DRACUNCULUS MEDINENSIS (noun)
  The noun DRACUNCULUS MEDINENSIS has 1 sense:

1. parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates

  Familiarity information: DRACUNCULUS MEDINENSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRACUNCULUS MEDINENSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Dracunculus medinensis; Guinea worm

Hypernyms ("Dracunculus medinensis" is a kind of...):

nematode; nematode worm; roundworm (unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic)

Holonyms ("Dracunculus medinensis" is a member of...):

Dracunculus; genus Dracunculus (type genus of the family Dracunculidae)

 Context examples 

A parasitic infection caused by Dracunculus medinensis.

(Dracunculiasis, NCI Thesaurus)