stomach worm

English

Noun

stomach worm (plural stomach worms)

  1. A common roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides), sometimes found in the human intestine, and rarely in the stomach.
  2. Any of other parasitic worms, such as Dispharynx nasuta.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stomach worm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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