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worm

(Encyclopedia)worm, common name for various unrelated invertebrate animals with soft, often long and slender bodies. Members of the phylum Platyhelminthes, or the flatworms, are the most primitive; they are general...

horsehair worm

(Encyclopedia)horsehair worm, worm of the class Nematomorpha. ...

apple worm

(Encyclopedia)apple worm: see codling moth.

acorn worm

(Encyclopedia)acorn worm: see Hemichordata.

sand worm

(Encyclopedia)sand worm, name applied to a number of marine sand-dwelling Worms used as bait in fishing. See Class Polychaeta under Annelida. ...

worm lizard

(Encyclopedia)worm lizard, partially or entirely limbless burrowing lizard of the family Amphisbaenidae. All worm lizards lack hind limbs and most species lack forelimbs as well. Except for their size, they are ver...

flatworm

(Encyclopedia)flatworm: see Platyhelminthes; worm. ...

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