worms

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  1. noun Any of various invertebrates, as those of the phyla Annelida, Nematoda, Nemertea, or Platyhelminthes, having a long, flexible, rounded or flattened body, often without obvious appendages.
  2. noun Any of various crawling insect larvae, such as a grub or a caterpillar, having a soft elongated body.
  3. noun Any of various unrelated animals, such as the shipworm or the slowworm, resembling a worm in habit or appearance.
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  • We employed both glow-worms, and even when the stairs became wet and slippery from something-- rain, or a watercourse that had broken through somewhere -- we did not put on the sparkles. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 04-05 - October-November 2002
  • Some of our party told me of a third, in which the worms were at work, but I shrunk from the sight. —  Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)
  • That discovery launched Thornton on an odyssey as he tried to figure out what the worms are and where the came from. —  Signs of the Times
  • The army worms are among the world's most destructive pests While armyworms feed on ground cereal like millet, rice or sorghum, he said, the unidentified insect favours munching the leaf of the Dohama tree. —  EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
  • Importantly, the survival rate of the three worm populations, which had been different when the worms were able to avoid the bacteria, became indistinguishable. —  Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews
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