Helminth

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A worm, especially a parasitic roundworm or tapeworm.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A parasitic roundworm or flatworm.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A worm; especially, an entozoan, entoparasitic, or intestinal worm, as a cestoid, trematoid, or nematoid. See cut under Cestoidea.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes
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