单词 | horsehair worm |
释义 | horsehair worm in British Englishnoun another name for hairworm (sense 2) horsehair worm in American English gordian worm horsehair worm in American Englishnoun any long, slender worm of the phylum Nematomorpha, developing parasitically on insects and crustaceans, and free-living as adults in streams and ponds Also called: gordian worm, nematomorph Word origin [1745–55]This word is first recorded in the period 1745–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: coda, compressor, development, generalize, input |
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