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Definition of Hairworms
1. hairworm [n] - See also: hairworm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hairworms
Literary usage of Hairworms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. First Lessons in Zoology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1903)
"108) which can be found in mouldy vinegar, and the hairworms or horse-hair snakes
which ... The hairworms all live as parasites during their larval stages, ..."
2. The Animals and Man: An Elementary Textbook of Zoology and Human Physiology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Mary Isabel McCracken (1911)
"The hairworms all live as parasites during their larval stages, ... Some of the
hairworms require two distinct hosts for the completion of their larval life ..."
3. Code of Federal Regulations by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Staff (2005)
"Pinworms (Oxyuris equi (adult and fourth-stage larvae)); Ascarids (Parascaris
equorum (adult and third- and fourth-stage larvae)); hairworms ..."
4. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"beetles, grasshoppers, and crickets, are found well-grown and nearly mature larvae
of the hairworms. On escaping into the water from these insects, ..."
5. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"The hairworms resemble the nematodes in general appearance, but differ greatly
in structure. The body cavity has both splanchnic and somatic epithelium; ..."
6. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1831)
"And first, you have not satisfied me what are the origin and enil of the hairworms
... I then concluded that the hairworms were young eels, and kept some in ..."
7. Human Cestoides: An Essay on the Tapeworms of Man by David Friedrich Weinland (1858)
"... Tapeworms, and hairworms, rank psychically highest among all Helminthes, the
Nematoda not except- ed. What a difference between those ..."
8. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... worms; the hairworms. They have an elongated filiform body with a ventral cord
and without oral papilla?, the mouth and anterior part of the alimentary ..."
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