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Any one of numerous species of annelids which burrow in the sand of the seashore.

A European species of wormwood (Artemisia maritima) growing by the sea.

Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo.

The larva of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths, which spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon before changing to a pupa.

A lecertilian reptile; the blindworm.

Any caterpillar which has the general appearance of a slug, as do those of certain moths belonging to Limacodes and allied genera, and those of certain sawflies.

The larva of any geometrid moth, as the cankeworm; a geometer; a measuring worm.

The larva of a noctuid mmoth (Achatodes zeæ) which feeds inside the stalks of corn (maize), sometimes causing much damage. It is smooth, with a black head and tail and a row of black dots across each segment.

A gephyrean worm of the genus Thalassema, having a spoonlike probiscis.

The larve of any species of botfly which is parasitic upon the stag, as , which burrows beneath the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils.

A caddice worm.

A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.

Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Tænia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The h…

Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria.

A small, footless, burrowing, snakelike lizard (Rhineura Floridana) allied to Amphisbæna, native of Florida; -- so called because it leaves its burrows after a thundershower.

Any species of Linguatulina.

Any annelid which constructs a tube; one of the Tubicolæ.

Not wormed; not having had the worm, or lytta, under the tongue cut out; -- said of a dog.

Any one of various species of moths whose gregarious larvæ eat the leaves of trees, and construct a large web to which they retreat when not feeding.

The harvest mite; -- so called from the wheals, caused by its bite.