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  • noun Plural form of lugworm.

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Examples

  • Adults relax on the Elle Deco-style terrace of No.56 Main Street eastfifeletting.co.uk as the cousins rock-pool, dig for lugworms and paddle right below, in rain or shine, for hours on end.

    Summer holidays: Top 10 places for over-fives 2011

  • In the pools lugworms are active, creating little round pillows of sand.

    Country diary: Holme Dunes, Norfolk 2011

  • The environmental consequences of this debris are not known, but when kept in aquaria amphipods (detritivores), lugworms (deposit feeders), and barnacles (filter feeders) all ingested microscopic particles within a few days.

    Lisa Kaas Boyle: Did You Just Eat a Plastic Bag? How Plastic Pollution Has Entered Our Food Chain Lisa Kaas Boyle 2011

  • Or consider the mako shark that fed on the barracuda that fed on the fish that fed on the lugworms and tiny shrimplike crustaceans that dined on the tiny granular fragments of plastic that have been steadily accumulating in the environment over the past forty years.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • Or consider the mako shark that fed on the barracuda that fed on the fish that fed on the lugworms and tiny shrimplike crustaceans that dined on the tiny granular fragments of plastic that have been steadily accumulating in the environment over the past forty years.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • This rapid growth means that the bill can change shape very rapidly if the feeding style is changed, and captive individuals that were forced to switch from bivalve-feeding to a diet of lugworms changed from having chisel-shaped bills to tweezer-like bills within 10 days.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • The men who collect the lugworms bait will only be there for a few more months.

    On the river bed LoopZilla 2007

  • The men who collect the lugworms bait will only be there for a few more months.

    Archive 2007-02-01 LoopZilla 2007

  • The first contained earthworms, the second lugworms, both in an indescribable state.

    Mrs. Miniver 1939

  • I helped him dig those lugworms the day we went over to Dungeness.

    Mrs. Miniver 1939

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