Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several worms of the phylum Nematoda, having unsegmented, cylindrical bodies, often narrowing at each end, and including parasitic forms such as the hookworm and pinworm. Also called roundworm.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as nematoid.
Wiktionary
- n. A small invertebrate animal of the phylum Nematoda.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Same as nematoid.
- n. (Zoöl.) Any worm of the phylum Nematoda; a roundworm; -- they are unsegmented worms having a cylindrical elongated body. They may live freely in soil or water, or as parasites in plants or animals.
WordNet 3.0
- n. unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic
Etymologies
- From New Latin Nēmatōda, phylum name : nemato- + New Latin -ōda (alteration of -oīdea, from neuter pl. of Greek -oeidēs, -oid). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Jaenike studied a species of fly, Drosophila neotestacea, which is rendered sterile by a parasitic worm called a nematode, one of the most abundant, diverse, and destructive parasites of plants and animals in the world.”
“The scientists have uncovered novel quantitative organizational principles that underlie the network organizations of the human brain, high performance computer circuits, and the nervous system of the worm, known as nematode C. elegans.”
“The team of scientists from the U.S., the U.K., and Germany has uncovered novel quantitative organizational principles that underlie the network organizations of the human brain, high performance computer circuits, and the nervous system of the worm, known as nematode C. elegans.”
“In the last 10 years scientists have realized that it is actually the bacteria, not the nematode, that is responsible for most of the symptoms produced by these illnesses.”
“- which can become as large as 200 normal plant cells - is called the nematode feeding site.”
“Each kind of nematode will have a different effect on a horse's health, with much depending upon the level of infection.”
“Borgonie was relieved that his physically punishing and time-consuming nematode bet had paid off.”
“Virtually nobody in the field including the committee at his university that granted him a sabbatical believed Borgonie's deep-mine nematode research would succeed because, on land, the worms are known to live only in the soil and near subsoil.”
“Virtually nobody in the field including the committee at his university that granted him a sabbatical believed his deep-mine nematode research would succeed because, on land, the worms are known to live only in the soil and near subsoil.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘nematode’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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an ode and see
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Ah, yeah, this is a list of words that I think sound pretty funny... or dumb, either way, I like 'em so, yeah.
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Pernicious parasites
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fatal attraction
So there's this guy...
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I'm a little too into him.
But hey, who are you to judge?
These are the words that make me think of him
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