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WORM GENUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does worm genus mean? 

WORM GENUS (noun)
  The noun WORM GENUS has 1 sense:

1. a genus of wormsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


WORM GENUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of worms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

genus ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species)

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

Ascaridia; genus Ascaridia (roundworm having a preanal sucker)

genus Haemopis; Haemopis (leeches)

genus Hirudo; Hirudo (type genus of the family Hirudinidae)

genus Polycirrus; Polycirrus (genus of soft-bodied polychete marine worms)

genus Terebella; Terebella (type genus of Terebellidae; tube-forming marine polychete worms with many filamentous tentacles)

Branchiobdella; genus Branchiobdella (type genus of the Branchiobdellidae: a small worm that lives on the gills or surface of a crayfish attached by a sucker)

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

genus Tylenchus; Tylenchus (type genus of the family Tylenchidae)

Anguillula; genus Anguillula; genus Turbatrix; Turbatrix (a genus of Cephalobidae)

Enterobius; genus Enterobius (pinworms)

Ascaris; genus Ascaris (type genus of the family Ascaridae: roundworms with a three-lipped mouth)

genus Taenia (type genus of the family Taeniidae: tapeworms)

genus Echinococcus (tapeworms)

genus Schistosoma; Schistosoma (type genus of the family Schistosomatidae: blood flukes)

Fasciolopsis; genus Fasciolopsis; Fasciola; genus Fasciola (a genus of Fasciolidae)

genus Spadella (marine worms resembling the sagittas but with a broader body and only one pair of lateral fins)

genus Sagitta (chief genus of Chaetognatha including the largest arrowworms)

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

animal kingdom; Animalia; kingdom Animalia (taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals)


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