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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A slender, whip-shaped, parasitic nematode worm (Trichuris trichiura) that often infests the intestine of humans.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A nematoid parasitic worm, Trichocephalus dispar, or another of this genus, as T. affinis, the cæcum-worm of sheep. They have a long, slender anterior part and a short, stout posterior part, like a whip-lash joined to a whip-stock.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A roundworm, causing trichuriasis when it infects a human large intestine.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) A nematode worm (Trichocephalus dispar) often found parasitic in the human intestine. Its body is thickened posteriorly, but is very long and threadlike anteriorly.

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