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- Dictionaryworm/wəːm/
noun
- 1. any of a number of creeping or burrowing invertebrate animals with long, slender soft bodies and no limbs.
- 2. a weak or despicable person (often used as a general term of abuse): informal, derogatory "it was unbearable that such a worm could be so successful"
verb
- 1. move with difficulty by crawling or wriggling: "I wormed my way along the roadside ditch"
- 2. insinuate one's way into: "you wormed your way into their lives"
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WORM definition: 1. a small animal with a long, narrow, soft body without arms, legs, or bones: 2. the young of…. Learn more.
The meaning of WORM is earthworm; broadly : an annelid worm. How to use worm in a sentence.
Any of various invertebrate animals having a soft, long body that is round or flattened and usually lacks limbs. The term worm is used variously to refer to the segmented worms (or annelids, such as the earthworm), roundworms (or nematodes), flatworms (or platyhelminths), and various other groups.
A worm is a small animal with a long thin body, no bones and no legs. 2. plural noun. If animals or people have worms, worms are living in their intestines. 3. verb. If you worm an animal, you give it medicine in order to kill the worms that are living in its intestines. I worm all my birds in early spring. [VERB noun]
worm. (wûrm) n. 1. Any of various invertebrates, especially an annelid, flatworm, nematode, or nemertean, having a long, flexible, rounded or flattened body, often without obvious appendages. 2. Any of various crawling insect larvae, such as a grub or a caterpillar, having a soft elongated body. 3.
A worm is a small, tube-shaped invertebrate with no arms or legs. The worms that hang out in your garden are very helpful, keeping the soil rich and fertile. Worm can be a contemptuous term for a weak person — and while most worms cause us no harm at all, there are dozens of worms that we'd be better off avoiding.
noun. /wɜːm/ /wɜːrm/ Idioms. [countable] a long, thin creature with a soft body and no bones or legs. birds looking for worms. Worms burrow down through the soil. see also earthworm, lugworm Topics Insects, worms, etc. b2. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Questions about grammar and vocabulary?
WORM meaning: 1 : a long, thin animal that has a soft body with no legs or bones and that often lives in the ground; 2 : the young form of some insects that looks like a small worm
In everyday language, the term worm is also applied to various other living forms such as larvae, insects, millipedes, centipedes, shipworms (teredo worms), or even some vertebrates (creatures with a backbone) such as blindworms and caecilians. Worms include several groups.
Any of many slender, soft-bodied animals, some segmented, that live by burrowing underground, in water, or as parasites, including the annelids, nemerteans, nematodes, platyhelminths, acanthocephalans, and gordian worms.
