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Definition of Hairworm
1. a parasitic worm [n -S]
Medical Definition of Hairworm
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hairworm
Literary usage of Hairworm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1831)
"I therefore still wished and wish to know, how an animal such as the hairworm
could get into the intestines of the beetle, and there grow to its full size, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Among round worms living in the tissues of cattle may be named a hairworm inhabiting
the eye and the serous cavity of the abdomen; the encysted trichina in ..."
3. The Journal of a Naturalist by John Leonard Knapp (1831)
"This hairworm, however, is rather less mysterious in its movements than some
others; and there is cause to suppose that its chief occupation is that of ..."
4. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"hairworm, a long, threadlike, harmless worm, often seen in fresh-water pools or
... The young hairworm, on hatching, sinks to the bottom of the pond, ..."
5. Sporting Sketches by Edwyn Sandys (1905)
"The creature referred to as a mystery is what is termed the "horse-hair snake,"
in reality a hairworm. It is found in all of our waters, and it greatly ..."
6. Leisure-time Studies: Chiefly Biological. A Series of Essays and Lectures by Andrew Wilson (1879)
"From each egg a little creature armed with minute hooks is produced, and this
young hairworm burrows its way into the body of some insect, there to repeat ..."
7. An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are by David Booth (1836)
"The Bleaks are often attacked (and even destroyed) by a species of hairworm, on
which occasions they are seen, writhing in agony, on the surface of the ..."
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