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earthworm
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A speeding subway train startled them as it roared out of its tunnel like a metal earthworm . ▪ Above centre: Male P. zebra eating earthworm . ▪ Feed a varied diet which includes plenty of earthworms, prawns, mussels, fish and ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers [syn: angleworm , fishworm , fishing worm , wiggler , nightwalker , nightcrawler , crawler , dew worm , red worm ]
Usage examples of earthworm.
And the best thing was that the earthworm techs she had to work with never came here.
It was typically inappropriate earthworm behavior, resulting only in a clash of visors, but Torec let it pass.
In the windows of her pale eyes he saw the contempt of this earthworm for the soldiers who fought and died to protect her.
You can find confident assertions that the number of described earthworm species is 4,000 and equally confident assertions that the figure is 12,000.
The earthworm, a bright, smart young kid from Omaha, Nebraska, with that corn-fed, scrubbed-face, blue-eyed look that you associate with Midwesterners, was pointing at the high-frequency end of the spectrum.
Straightforward dissections of the earthworm, the frog, the afferent and efferent systems of the dogfish, that kind of thing.
Julie was of a huge-eyed and dusky-headed five-year-old, tottering in tear-stained from break with a waterlogged earthworm hanging in a swoon from her small, pink hand.
Even the green-clad Earthworm cadets had been pressed into service as messengers.
Or was he compromised by contacts with earthworms, as Blue kept telling him?
But seeds often get covered by earth thrown up by burrowing quadrupeds or scratching birds, by the castings of earthworms, by heaps of excrement, the decaying branches of trees, etc.
But it must aid them materially when they happen to break obliquely into cracks, or into burrows made by earthworms or larvae.
She knell heavily, feeling the cool dampness seep through her skirts to chill her knees, and scooped up a little earth in her hands, scrabbling at it, ending up with a handful of earthworms and wild violet roots for her pains.
There was still a wink of gold in it, like no ordinary farmyard fertilizer, telling her where it had come from, but it was as if two seasons of weather and earthworms had already sieved and stirred and transformed it into something she and her rosebushes loved much better than gold.
Tower, the three cadets could see the green-clad first-year Earthworms getting their first taste of cadet life--hours of close-order formations and drills.
From all corners of the quadrangle, the slidewalks carried Earthworms in their green uniforms, upper-class cadets in deep blue, enlisted spacemen in scarlet red, and Solar Guard officers in their striking uniforms of black and gold.