English > worm: 5 senses > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla ... / phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae. |
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| Narrower | acanthocephalan, spiny-headed worm | Any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines |
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| annelid, annelid worm, segmented worm | worms with cylindrical bodies segmented both internally and externally |
| arrowworm, chaetognath | Any worm of the Chaetognatha |
| beard worm, pogonophoran | slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering |
| flatworm, platyhelminth | Parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body |
| helminth, parasitic worm | worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes |
| nematode, nematode worm, roundworm | unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends |
| ribbon worm, nemertean, nemertine, proboscis worm | Soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract |
| woodworm | A larva of a woodborer |
| Broader | invertebrate | Any animal lacking a backbone or notochord |
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| Spanish | gusano, verme |
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| Catalan | cuc |
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| Adjectives | wormy | infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms |
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