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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Vermes  \Ver"mes\,  n.  pl  [L.  vermes,  pl  of  vermis  a  worm.] 
  (Zo["o]l.) 
  a  An  extensive  artificial  division  of  the  animal  kingdom, 
  including  the  parasitic  worms,  or  helminths,  together 
  with  the  nemerteans,  annelids,  and  allied  groups.  By  some 
  writers  the  branchiopods,  the  bryzoans  and  the  tunicates 
  are  also  included.  The  name  was  used  in  a  still  wider 
  sense  by  Linn[ae]us  and  his  followers. 
  b  A  more  restricted  group  comprising  only  the  helminths 
  and  closely  allied  orders 

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