noun
worm
WURM/wɜːrm/
A small animal with a long, soft body and no legs.
A worm wriggles through the damp soil in our garden.
Etymology
Old English wyrm could name a serpent or dragon as well as an earthworm. The modern animal sense narrows a formerly broad label for crawling or slithering creatures to small, soft-bodied, limbless animals.
In context
most of their body is completely hidden within the tube you can see this video down in the corner that's what a fan worm does all day it sticks these tentacles called radial or tentacles out into the water column
More examples
- Robins pull worms from the lawn after rain.
- She puts a worm on her fishing hook.
- Some worms live inside other animals.
Forms
worm · worms
wormy adjective — Infested with or damaged by worms.
Similar words
- earthworm
- Specifically a segmented worm that lives in soil.
- maggot
- Specifically a fly's soft, legless larva, often found in decay.