PARASITIC WORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parasitic worm mean? 

• PARASITIC WORM (noun)
  The noun PARASITIC WORM has 1 sense:

1. worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes

  Familiarity information: PARASITIC WORM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARASITIC WORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

helminth; parasitic worm

Hypernyms ("parasitic worm" is a kind of...):

worm (any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae)

Holonyms ("parasitic worm" is a member of...):

class Trematoda; Trematoda (parasitic flatworms (including flukes))

Cestoda; class Cestoda (tapeworms)

Aschelminthes; Nematoda; phylum Aschelminthes; phylum Nematoda (unsegmented worms: roundworms; threadworms; eelworms)