CASEWORM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Insect larva that constructs a protective case around its body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("caseworm" is a kind of...):

larva (the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "caseworm"):

caddisworm; strawworm (larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris)

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