EELWORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eelworm mean? 

• EELWORM (noun)
  The noun EELWORM has 1 sense:

1. any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms

  Familiarity information: EELWORM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EELWORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("eelworm" is a kind of...):

nematode; nematode worm; roundworm (unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eelworm"):

Anguillula aceti; Turbatrix aceti; vinegar eel; vinegar worm (minute eelworm that feeds on organisms that cause fermentation in e.g. vinegar)