NEMATODE WORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nematode worm mean? 

• NEMATODE WORM (noun)
  The noun NEMATODE WORM has 1 sense:

1. unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic

  Familiarity information: NEMATODE WORM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEMATODE WORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

nematode; nematode worm; roundworm

Hypernyms ("nematode worm" is a kind of...):

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nematode worm"):

Ascaris lumbricoides; common roundworm (intestinal parasite of humans and pigs)

Ascaridia galli; chicken roundworm (intestinal parasite of domestic fowl)

Enterobius vermicularis; pinworm; threadworm (small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children)

eelworm (any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms)

Tylenchus tritici; wheat eel; wheat eelworm; wheatworm (small roundworm parasitic on wheat)

trichina; Trichinella spiralis (parasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscles)

hookworm (parasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts)

filaria (slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects)

Dracunculus medinensis; Guinea worm (parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates)

Holonyms ("nematode worm" is a member of...):

Aschelminthes; Nematoda; phylum Aschelminthes; phylum Nematoda (unsegmented worms: roundworms; threadworms; eelworms)

 Context examples 

The brain of a nematode worm, for example, has about 300 neurons and 2,200 synapses.

(Fundamental Rules for How The Brain Controls Movement, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Cavendish — which accounts for nearly half of all banana varieties grown in the world and most imports into Europe and the US — can be protected by splicing in genes from banana varieties resistant to the deadly Tropical Race 4 (TR4) strain of the Fusarium oxysporum fungus as well as a gene from a nematode worm.

(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)