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

1 sense of acanthocephalan

Sense 1
acanthocephalan, spiny-headed worm -- (any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines)
       => worm -- (any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae)