spiny-headed_worm (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *spiny-headed worm*:
NOUN	animal	spiny-headed worm, acanthocephalan	any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines

English > *spiny-headed worm*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	Any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines.
Synonym	acanthocephalan
Member of	Acanthocephala, phylum Acanthocephala	phylum or class of elongated wormlike parasites that live in the intestines of vertebrates
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
Spanish	acantocéfalo
Catalan	acantocèfal, acantocéfalo

HyperDic: spiny-headed_worm