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WORM FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does worm family mean? 

WORM FAMILY (noun)
  The noun WORM FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. a family of wormsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


WORM FAMILY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of worms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)

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

family Fasciolidae; Fasciolidae; family Schistosomatidae; Schistosomatidae (a family of Trematoda)

family Taeniidae; Taeniidae (a family of Cestoda)

Ascaridae; family Ascaridae (large roundworms parasitic in intestines of vertebrates)

family Oxyuridae; Oxyuridae (pinworms)

Cephalobidae; family Cephalobidae; family Tylenchidae; Tylenchidae (a family of Nematoda)

Ancylostomatidae; family Ancylostomatidae (hookworms)

family Filariidae; Filariidae (threadlike roundworms)

Dracunculidae; family Dracunculidae (greatly elongated roundworm)

Branchiobdellidae; family Branchiobdellidae (small annelid worms with the posterior end modified into an adhesive sucker; especially formerly regarded as modified leeches)

family Terebellidae; Terebellidae (marine burrowing or tube-forming polychete worms usually having long thick bodies)

family Hirudinidae; Hirudinidae (a family of Hirudinea)

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

animal kingdom; Animalia; kingdom Animalia (taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals)


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