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sea-worm
1. Any marine annelid.
1681Grew Musæum i. §vii. iii. 178 Not being naturally Tubulous, but made so by a sort of Sea-Wormes. 1769–76Pennant Brit. Zool. III. 62 Porpesses..often descend to the bottom in search of sand eels and sea worms. 1800Hull Advertiser 31 May 2/2 Ships which have made long voyages..are subject to the sea worm. 1888E. Clodd Story Creation iv. 30 Traces of marine organisms survive in the trails and borings of sea-worms.
†2. The pipe-fish. Obs.
1752[see sea-adder 2].
†3. A sea-serpent. Obs. rare.
1799T. Holcroft Mem. (1816) III. 227 Finding this leviathan [the Kraken] so familiar to their belief, I next inquired if they had heard or knew any thing of the sea-snake, by some called the sea-worm. |