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A small nematode worm (Anguillula tritici) which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm.

A nematode worm (Trichocephalus dispar) often found parasitic in the human intestine. Its body is thickened posteriorly, but is very long and threadlike anteriorly.

ers; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub.

One who, or that which, feeds on or destroys wit. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

See Wood worm, under Wood.

The plant absinthium or common wormwood.

Of or pertaining to wormwood; absinthian.

Of the nature of wormwood. "Absinthian bitterness." T. Randolph.

To impregnate with wormwood.

Impregnated with wormwood; as, absinthiated wine.

Relating to the common wormwood or to an acid obtained from it.

The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). Watts.

The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood.

A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines.

head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.

A peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles.

Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm.

distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still. Used also metaphorically. The alembic of a great poet's imagination. Brimley.

nted legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chætopoda, including the Oligochæta or earthworms and Polychæta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chætopoda.

of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches, etc. See Annelida.