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hairworm |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gordius \Gor"di*us\, n. [NL. See {Gordian}, 1.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in which they deposit their eggs; -- called also {hair eel}, {hairworm}, and {hair snake}, from the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hairworm \Hair"worm`\ (Zo["o]l.) A nematoid worm of the genus {Gordius}, resembling a hair. See {Gordius}.
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