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Animals - Worms

Here you will learn the names of different types of worms in English, such as "caterpillar", "leech", and "tapeworm".

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worm

a small soft-bodied animal with an elongated body that lacks limbs and eyes

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lugworm

a sandworm that lives near the sea and is used as bait for fishing

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earthworm

a terrestrial invertebrate of the annelid family that moves through the soil and feeds on organic matter

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centipede

an arthropod with many pairs of legs and a pair of poisonous fangs

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flatworm

a simple worm with a soft unsegmented body that is flat, some types of which are parasitic

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millipede

any arthropod of the diplopod family with a segmented body and many pairs of legs

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tapeworm

a parasitic flatworm that is shaped like a ribbon and lives in the intestines of mammals

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threadworm

a long tiny nematode that infests the intestines, especially rectum, of mammals

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leech

a parasitic or predatory worm of the annelid family that lives in freshwaters and drinks blood by attaching itself to its prey

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nematode

any long and cylindrical worm with a segmented body that is either parasitic or free-living

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caterpillar

a long and small wormlike larva of a moth or butterfly that has many limbs

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woodworm

the larvae of a beetle that feed on wood and make a lot of holes in it

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hookworm

a parasitic roundworm with strong hooks or plates that attaches to an animal or a human's intestines and causes an infection or disease

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roundworm

a worm of the nematode family that is parasitic and lives in the intestines of humans or animals

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liver fluke

any parasitic worm of the trematode family that invades the liver of a mammal

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glowworm

a type of insect, the female of which emits light through bioluminescence, especially a firefly

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