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nematode
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Word definitions for nematode in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1865, from Modern Latin Nematoda , the class or phylum name.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
nematode \nem"a*tode\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any worm of the phylum Nematoda; a roundworm; -- they are unsegmented worms having a cylindrical elongated body. They may live freely in soil or water, or as parasites in plants or animals.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A small invertebrate animal of the phylum ''Nematoda''.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic [syn: nematode worm , roundworm ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The nematodes or roundworms constitute the phylum Nematoda . They are a diverse animal phylum inhabiting a very broad range of environments. Nematode species can be difficult to distinguish, and although over 25,000 have been described, of which more than ...
Usage examples of nematode.
Some kind of highly developed giant nematode or land-based echinoderm, he decided as he turned to examine the motionless carcass.
New Guinea that lives symbiotically with dozens of plants, growing in the niches and clefts in its carapace, rooted all the way down to its flesh, plus a whole ecosystem of mites, rotifers, nematodes, and bacteria attached to the garden.
They can also be parasitized by tachinid flies, trichogramma and braconid wasps, and nematodes.
Mammals, marsupials, monotremes, birds, reptiles, worms, insects, arachnids, crustaceans, planaria, nematodes, protists, fungi, even a horticultural center.
Nematodes are both host specific and homebodies, so they will starve if you remove their favourite plants and put some more in another spot in the garden.
Mammals, marsupials, monotremes, birds, reptiles, worms, insects, arachnids, crustaceans, planaria, nematodes, protists, fungi, even a horticultural center.
Each handful contains millions of bacteria, fungi and algae from countless species, and the protozoans, springtails and nematodes that feed on them.
Name a creature, from a nematode worm to Cameron Diaz, and they all use architecture first created in the Cambrian party.
Studies of these agents are proceeding, but the nematodes are likely to control only the largest termites such as Mastotermes.
Beneficial nematodes also have the potential to control subterranean termites.
In other countries, you can actually buy nematodes, but in Australia, we just have to be content with keeping our fingers crossed and breeding our own.
Things like cauliflower, lettuce, beetroot and spinach can be safely grown in soil where bulb nematodes are a problem.
Root-knot nematodes cause galls or bulbous swellings or small growths along the roots.
In about four to six weeks, this heat will cook out the nematodes, as well as many insect larvae and a significant amount of weed seeds.
Other plants said to discourage nematodes are dahlias, salvia, calendula, hairy indigo, velvet beans and garlic.