English > nematode worm: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic. |
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| Synonyms | nematode, roundworm |
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| Member of | Nematoda, phylum Nematoda, Aschelminthes, phylum Aschelminthes | unsegmented worms |
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| Narrower | Guinea worm, Dracunculus medinensis | Parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates |
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| chicken roundworm, Ascaridia galli | intestinal parasite of domestic fowl |
| common roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides | intestinal parasite of humans and pigs |
| eelworm | Any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms |
| filaria | slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates |
| hookworm | Parasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts |
| pinworm, threadworm, Enterobius vermicularis | small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children |
| trichina, Trichinella spiralis | Parasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscles |
| wheatworm, wheat eel, wheat eelworm, Tylenchus tritici | small roundworm parasitic on wheat |
| Broader | worm | Any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla ... / phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes |
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| Spanish | nematoda, nematodo, nemátodo, nematodos |
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| Catalan | nematode |
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