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

1 sense of trichinella spiralis

Sense 1
trichina, Trichinella spiralis -- (parasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscles)
       => nematode, nematode worm, roundworm -- (unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic)