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

1 sense of fishing worm

Sense 1
earthworm, angleworm, fishworm, fishing worm, wiggler, nightwalker, nightcrawler, crawler, dew worm, red worm -- (terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers)
       => oligochaete, oligochaete worm -- (hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body)