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earthworm
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun earthworm has 1 sense
- earthworm(n = noun.animal) angleworm, crawler, dew worm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler - terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers; Array is a member of class oligochaeta, oligochaeta
is a kind of oligochaete, oligochaete worm
CIDE DICTIONARY
earthworm, n.
- Any worm of the genus
Lumbricus and allied genera, found in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America isL. terrestris ; many others are known; -- called alsoangleworm anddewworm . [1913 Webster] - A mean, sordid person; a niggard. Norris. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
earthworm, n. any of various annelid worms, esp. of the genus Lumbricus or Allolobophora, living and burrowing in the ground.
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