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sandworm
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A sandworm is a fictional form of desert -dwelling creature from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert . They first appear in the 1965 novel Dune , considered to be among the classics in the science fiction genre, and are iconic of the Dune series. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context British English) The lugworm, (taxlink Arenicola marina species noshow=1). 2 (context US English) The clam worm or ragworm, (taxlink Alitta virens species noshow=1). 3 hookworm larvae, especially of (taxlink Ancylostoma braziliense species ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sandworm \Sand"worm`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of annelids which burrow in the sand of the seashore. Any species of annelids of the genus Sabellaria . They construct firm tubes of agglutinated sand on rocks and shells, and are sometimes ...
Usage examples of sandworm.
The tiniest deviation from any of these evolutionary shifts, and you might now be licking algae from cave walls or lolling walruslike on some stony shore or disgorging air through a blowhole in the top of your head before diving sixty feet for a mouthful of delicious sandworms.
More avians, or perhaps the same ones on a return trip, brought trundle-bugs and sandworms which flopped or burrowed in the weeds.
MAKER HOOKS: the hooks used for capturing, mounting, and steering a sandworm of Arrakis.
Ten thousand years since Leto II began his metamorphosis from human into the sandworm of Rakis and historians still argue over his motives.
He was not sure how that need worked but he imagined a circle: Sandworms to sandtrout to melange and back again.
What if they captured Sheeana down there at the edge of the new desert waiting for sandworms that might never appear?
Sheeana plus the sandworms: a potent religious force Honored Matres might know how to exploit.
She could see from the slow way the 'thopters came down that they had found no spiceblows or other signs that sandworms were at last developing from the sandtrout planted here.
How soon would this air be dry enough for the sandworms to grow great and work their crop as they had on Dune?
Even with the groundcars humming engines and the plodding people following the spice loads, sandworms did not approach the cliffs.
Shame upon all of you for helping to bring about the death of the sandworms, the eventual destruction of Arrakis.
They were all bound together by the special red dust cast off by the sandworms, a powder that was the dried essence of Shai-Hulud himself.
After all, years ago, a young untrained outcast had discovered how to ride the demon sandworms for the first time, without any guidance whatsoever.
He was not a warrior and had never learned to ride the great sandworms, though Marha was certain she could instruct him.
The two of them guided Shai-Hulud and led their fellow wormriders to a bright horizon, a future where they could be free and strong and all of the sandworms were alive.