earthworm

[ urth-wurm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

any one of numerous annelid worms that burrow in soil and feed on soil nutrients and decaying organic matter.
Archaic. a mean or groveling person.

earthworm

/ ˈɜːθˌwɜːm /

any of numerous oligochaete worms of the genera Lumbricus, Allolobophora, Eisenia, etc, which burrow in the soil and help aerate and break up the ground lumbricoid

First recorded in 1400–50, earthworm is from the late Middle English word ertheworm. See earth, worm

Rossellini enthusiastically acts out various sex acts while costumed as an earthworm, a spider, a bee, and other invertebrates.

He ate the slugs eagerly and seemed to enjoy tugging at wriggling bits of earthworm.

The earthworm, the cockroach, and the bed-bug are regarded as peculiarly disgusting, and all have a particularly offensive odour.

It is of a greyish-red colour and in size and general appearance like the common earthworm.

The robin hears the earthworm burrowing his course under the ground; the bloodhound follows a scent that is two days old.

They seemed to be truly amphibious animals while I felt very much of an earthworm.

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