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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various slender parasitic nematode worms, especially those of the genus Trichostrongylus that infest the stomach and small intestine of cattle, sheep, and related animals, and those of the genus Capillaria that infest the digestive system of poultry and other animals.
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- noun A
nematomorph .
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Examples
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The parasitic Nematomorph hairworm (Spinochordodes tellinii) develops inside land-dwelling grasshoppers and crickets until the time comes for the worm to transform into an aquatic adult.
Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives 2005
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The nematomorph hairworm Spinochordodes tellinii develops inside land-dwelling grasshoppers and crickets until the time comes for the worm to transform into an aquatic adult.
Lynn Margulis: "Definitely a Darwinist" - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Other insects that destroy garden vegetables are the well-known green cabbage-worm, the harlequin cabbage-bug, the cabbage hairworm, the asparagus-beetle, the squash-bug, the squash-vine borer, the striped cucumber or melon beetle, the melon aphis, the corn boll-worm, the cornstalk borer and many others.
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
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Israel is an ally? the hairworm that borne its parasite inside the grasshopper and control the victim to jump into water to drown in self-induced suicide so the hairworm frees itself from the water-logged body of the insect.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2010
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