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

1 sense of parasitic worm

Sense 1
helminth, parasitic worm -- (worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes)
       => 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)