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PARASITIC WORM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does parasitic worm mean?
• PARASITIC WORM (noun)
The noun PARASITIC WORM has 1 sense:
1. worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes
Familiarity information: PARASITIC WORM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
helminth; parasitic worm
Hypernyms ("parasitic 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)
Holonyms ("parasitic worm" is a member of...):
class Trematoda; Trematoda (parasitic flatworms (including flukes))
Cestoda; class Cestoda (tapeworms)
Aschelminthes; Nematoda; phylum Aschelminthes; phylum Nematoda (unsegmented worms: roundworms; threadworms; eelworms)
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