Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as fluke, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) Same as 1st fluke, 2.

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  • noun Any usually parasitic worm in the class Trematoda.

Etymologies

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fluke +‎ worm

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  • Over the course of the seven years that follow, Dana Scully risks her life investigating alien abduction cases, murders committed by genetic mutants – like a man who eats livers and can stretch his body in improbable ways or a boy who is able to summon lightning or a giant flukeworm which has evolved to have a humanoid appearance – and serial killers, some of whom may be incarnations of the devil.

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