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- noun Plural form of
hairworm .
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Examples
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That ranks right up there with this video of hairworms blowing up a grasshopper.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - What the crap is this thing? 2008
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Once in the water the mature hairworms - which are three to four times longer that their hosts when extended - emerge and swim away to find a mate, leaving their host dead or dying in the water.
Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives 2005
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Somehow mature hairworms brainwash their hosts into behaving in way they never usually would - causing them to seek out and plunge into water.
Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives 2005
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That's when the hairworms leave the host and reproduce.
News 2011
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That's when the hairworms leave the host and reproduce.
News 2011
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