Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dracunculus_medinensis

1 sense of dracunculus medinensis

Sense 1
Guinea worm, Dracunculus medinensis -- (parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates)
       => nematode, nematode worm, roundworm -- (unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic)