worm
/wɜːm/
A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm; More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms. See Appendix:English worms; Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake (cf. “dragon”
- plural
- worms
Meanings
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A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm
The bird is looking for worms.
Tatoeba · sundown · CC BY 2.0 FR
The early bird catches the worm.
Tatoeba · al_ex_an_der · CC BY 2.0 FR
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More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms. See Appendix:English worms
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Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake (cf. “dragon”; blindworm, slowworm, “legless lizard”), snail, or caterpillar
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Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake (cf. “dragon”; blindworm, slowworm, “legless lizard”), snail, or caterpillar.; A maggot or any other insect larva with similar shape and behavior
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A dragon, today especially Germanic dragon, more often of the serpentine or wingless type, for example sea serpent, but also any kind of dragonrare
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A dragon, today especially Germanic dragon, more often of the serpentine or wingless type, for example sea serpent, but also any kind of dragon.; Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death wormrare
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A contemptible or devious beingrare
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A self-replicating program that propagates through a network by copying itself, differing from a virus which seeks to propagate by inserting its code into other executable filesrare
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A graphical representation of the total runs scored across a number of oversrare
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Anything helical, especially the thread of a screwrare