WHEAT EEL

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Meaning:

Small roundworm parasitic on wheat

Synonyms:

Tylenchus tritici; wheat eel; wheat eelworm; wheatworm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("wheat eel" is a kind of...):

nematode; nematode worm; roundworm (unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic)

Holonyms ("wheat eel" is a member of...):

genus Tylenchus; Tylenchus (type genus of the family Tylenchidae)

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