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- pronunciation:
- wuhrm
- parts of speech:
- noun, verb
- features:
- Word Explorer
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noun |
| definition 1: |
A worm is a small animal with no legs and no bones. A worm's body is long and thin and often looks like a small tube. Birds and fish like to eat worms. Worms live in water or on land.
After it rains, you can usually see worms on the sidewalk.
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| definition 2: |
"Worms" is a disease caused by certain kinds of worms that can live inside the body of people or animals.
Our dog takes a kind of medicine to prevent him from getting worms. |
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| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
worms, worming, wormed |
| definition: |
If someone worms their way through a crowd, they move in a winding way around a lot of different people as they go.
The motorcycle wormed its way through the heavy traffic. |
| derivations: |
wormlike (adj.), wormer (n.) |
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worms influence |
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agriculture, compost, soil |
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broader categories that include worms |
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animal, invertebrate |
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produced by worms |
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cocoon, eggs |
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similar to a worm |
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caterpillar |
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some behaviors of worms |
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crawling, creeping, digging, stretching, sucking, swimming |
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some examples of worms |
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earthworm |
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some parts of worms |
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fin, tentacles |
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some places worms are found |
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burrow, host, intestines, mud, ocean, sand, soil, water, wood |
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some things that worms eat |
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blood, grass, leaf, plants, wheat, wood |
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