nematode worm
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1. unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic (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) |
| hyponym | : | eelworm, |
| definition | : | any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | trichina, trichinella spiralis, |
| definition | : | parasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscles (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | hookworm, |
| definition | : | parasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | filaria, |
| definition | : | slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | dracunculus medinensis, guinea worm, |
| definition | : | parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates (noun.animal) |
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