| 单词 | eye worm |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseye worm eye worm n. †(a) a fantasy or whim which establishes itself through visual impression (cf. worm n. 11b) (obsolete rare); (b) any of various parasitic worms that infest the eye; esp. (in humans) a loa worm. ΚΠ 1591 J. Lyly Endimion iii. iv. sig. Fv Loue is but an eye worme, which onely tickleth the heade with hopes. 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. App. 354 Looking over our author's list of eye-worms that infest fishes, we find that five out of seven are attached to different species of perch. 1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses viii. 152 Pycnoscelus surinamensis is the intermediate host of a serious parasite (Oxyspirura mansoni, chicken eye worm) of poultry. 2001 Nat. New Eng. May 9/3 He tells me about another patient who was convinced he had an eye worm, a parasite unknown in this part of the world. < as lemmas |
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