acanthocephalan

English Thesaurus

1. any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	worm,
definition	:	any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	acanthocephala, phylum acanthocephala,
definition	:	phylum or class of elongated wormlike parasites that live in the intestines of vertebrates: spiny-headed worms (noun.animal)