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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See spiny-headed worm.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One of the Acanthocephala.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek ἄκανθος (akanthos, "thorn") + κεφαλή (kephalē, "head") (Wiktionary)
  2. From New Latin Acanthocephala, phylum name : acantho- + Greek kephalē, head; see -cephalous. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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