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Earthworm   /ˈərθwˌərm/   Listen
Earthworm

noun
1.
Terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers.  Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler.





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"Earthworm" Quotes from Famous Books



... protested, "don't rate us too low. The humblest of creatures has its uses—'even the little pismire,' you know, as Isaak Walton tells us. Why, I have got substantial help from a stamp-collector. And then reflect upon the motor-scorcher and the earthworm and the blow-fly. All these lowly creatures play their parts in the scheme of Nature; and shall we cast out the medical jurist ...
— The Vanishing Man • R. Austin Freeman


Words linked to "Earthworm" :   oligochaete, Oligochaeta, oligochaete worm, class Oligochaeta


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