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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Animals
worm [noun]

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

Ex: The fisherman used a worm as bait to catch the fish .
lugworm [noun]

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

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

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

flatworm [noun]

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

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

tapeworm [noun]

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

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

leech [noun]

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

nematode [noun]

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

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

woodworm [noun]

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

hookworm [noun]

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

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

glowworm [noun]

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