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WORM GENUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of worms
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("worm genus" is a kind of...):
genus ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "worm genus"):
genus Haemopis; Haemopis (leeches)
genus Hirudo; Hirudo (type genus of the family Hirudinidae)
genus Polycirrus; Polycirrus (genus of soft-bodied polychete marine worms)
genus Terebella; Terebella (type genus of Terebellidae; tube-forming marine polychete worms with many filamentous tentacles)
Branchiobdella; genus Branchiobdella (type genus of the Branchiobdellidae: a small worm that lives on the gills or surface of a crayfish attached by a sucker)
Dracunculus; genus Dracunculus (type genus of the family Dracunculidae)
genus Tylenchus; Tylenchus (type genus of the family Tylenchidae)
Anguillula; genus Anguillula; genus Turbatrix; Turbatrix (a genus of Cephalobidae)
Enterobius; genus Enterobius (pinworms)
Ascaridia; genus Ascaridia (roundworm having a preanal sucker)
Ascaris; genus Ascaris (type genus of the family Ascaridae: roundworms with a three-lipped mouth)
genus Taenia (type genus of the family Taeniidae: tapeworms)
genus Echinococcus (tapeworms)
genus Schistosoma; Schistosoma (type genus of the family Schistosomatidae: blood flukes)
Fasciolopsis; genus Fasciolopsis; Fasciola; genus Fasciola (a genus of Fasciolidae)
genus Spadella (marine worms resembling the sagittas but with a broader body and only one pair of lateral fins)
genus Sagitta (chief genus of Chaetognatha including the largest arrowworms)
Holonyms ("worm genus" is a member of...):
animal kingdom; Animalia; kingdom Animalia (taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals)
