Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An order of Nemathelminthes, or class of Vermes, having a mouth and an alimentary canal and separate sexes, and being usually parasitic; the nematoid worms; the roundworms and threadworms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun plural (Zoöl.) A phylum of worms, having a long, round, and generally smooth body; the roundworms. Called also
Nematodea , and more commonlyNematoda . Formerly, it was classed as a taxonomic order.
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Small specimens have been found beneath the tunica conjunctiva of the eye; and one species of the same genus of _Nematoidea_ infests the cavity of the eye itself. [
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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