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earthworm
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, erþe-worme, from earth + worm (n.). In this sense Old English had eorðmata, also regnwyrm, literally "rain-worm." Old English also had angel-twæcce "earthworm used as bait" (with second element from root of twitch), sometimes used in medieval times as a medicament:\n\nFor the blake Jawndes take angylltwacches, er þei go in to the erth in the mornynge and fry hem. Take ix or x small angyltwacches, and bray hem, and giff the syke to drynke fastynge, with stale ale, but loke þat thei bene grounden so small that þe syke may nat se, ne witt what it is, for lothynge.
[Book of Medical Recipes in Medical Society of London Library, c.1450]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A worm that lives in the ground. 2 A worm of the Lumbricidae family, or, more generally, of the ''(taxlink Lumbricina suborder noshow=1)'' suborder. 3 (context figurative English) A contemptible person. 4 (context figurative English) death.
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]
Wikipedia
An earthworm is a tube-shaped, segmented worm found in the phylum Annelida. Earthworms are commonly found living in soil, feeding on live and dead organic matter. An earthworm's digestive system runs through the length of its body. It conducts respiration through its skin. It has a double transport system composed of coelomic fluid that moves within the fluid-filled coelom and a simple, closed blood circulatory system. It has a central and a peripheral nervous system. The central nervous system consists of two ganglia above the mouth, one on either side, connected to a nerve cord running back along its length to motor neurons and sensory cells in each segment. Large numbers of chemoreceptors are concentrated near its mouth. Circumferential and longitudinal muscles on the periphery of each segment enable the worm to move. Similar sets of muscles line the gut, and their actions move the digesting food toward the worm's anus.
Earthworms are hermaphrodites—each individual carries both male and female sex organs. They lack either an internal skeleton or exoskeleton, but maintain their structure with fluid-filled coelom chambers that function as a hydrostatic skeleton.
"Earthworm" is the common name for the largest members of Oligochaeta (which is either a class or a subclass depending on the author). In classical systems, they were placed in the order Opisthopora, on the basis of the male pores opening posterior to the female pores, though the internal male segments are anterior to the female. Theoretical cladistic studies have placed them, instead, in the suborder Lumbricina of the order Haplotaxida, but this may again soon change. Folk names for the earthworm include "dew-worm", "rainworm", "night crawler", and "angleworm" (due to its use as fishing bait).
Larger terrestrial earthworms are also called megadriles (literally, "big worms"), as opposed to the microdriles ("small worms") in the semiaquatic families Tubificidae, Lumbricidae, and Enchytraeidae, among others. The megadriles are characterized by having a distinct clitellum (which is more extensive than that of microdriles) and a vascular system with true capillaries.
Earthworms are far less abundant in disturbed environments and are typically active only if water is present.
Earthworm is a common name referring to many various species of worm which typically live underground.
Earthworm or The Earthworm may also refer to:
- The Earthworm (album), a 1995 hip-hop album by LPG
- The Earthworm, a character from the 1967 novel James and the Giant Peach
Earthworm is the twenty-second album by the Finnish experimental rock band Circle.
The album has vocals and guitar from Bruce Duff of the band Jesters of Destiny. Circle's relationship with Duff began when Jussi Lehtisalo re-released the Jesters' album Fun at the Funeral on his Ektro Records label. Two tracks from Earthworm (the title track and "Connection") were re-issued twice, firstly on a 7" single included in the 2008 vinyl edition of Circle's album Tulikoira, and on the band's full-length album collaboration with Duff from 2008, Hollywood.
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.