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An early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia.

Stomach tube (Med.), a long flexible tube for introduction into the stomach. -- Stomach worm (Zoöl.), the common roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides) found in the human intestine, and rarely in the stomach.

rbutus. -- Strawberry vine (Bot.), the plant which yields the strawberry. -- Strawberry worm (Zoöl.), the larva of any moth which feeds on the strawberry vine.

A mature tapeworm.

lly producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, as the tapeworm, -- one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.

Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n.

A kind of worm or larva. Walton.

A pustular eruption upon the scalp, or the beared part of the face, whether due to ringworm, acne, or impetigo.

A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.

A remedy to destroy tapeworms.

A remedy to expel tapeworms.

Ill health due to tænia, or tapeworms.

The division of cestode worms which comprises the tapeworms. See Tapeworm.

A worm which has its tail conspicuously colored.

un.), a kind of breech sight for a cannon. -- Tangent screw (Mach.), an endless screw; a worm.

A worm or worm wheel; a tangent screw.

e iron thinner than boiler plate, and thicker than sheet iron or stovepipe iron. -- Tank worm (Zoöl.), a small nematoid worm found in the water tanks of India, supposed by some to be the young of the Guinea worm.

larva of a bombycid moth (Clisiocampa Americana). Called also lackery caterpillar, and webworm.

A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App.

A division of annelids including the common earthworms and allied species.