• any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
• a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network
• screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack
verb
• to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
• the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
• a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
• a perceptual structure
• any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
• alternative names for the body of a human being
• the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance
• the visual appearance of something or someone
• a printed document with spaces in which to write
• (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
• an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse
• a particular mode in which something is manifested
• (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary
• the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber; the principal source of commercial silk
• larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon
• a statue consisting of a squared stone pillar with a carved head (usually a bearded Hermes) on top; used in ancient Greece as a boundary marker or signpost
• A tune that keeps replaying in one's head or that one keeps thinking about, especially if unwanted.
• (originally United States) Short for corn earworm (“larva of the moths Helicoverpa zea (syn. Heliothis zea) and Helicoverpa armigera, which are agricultural pests”).
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