lumbricusn.
/lʌmˈbrʌɪkəs/ Zoology. attributive.1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 82 The contents of the stomach, together with a lumbricus worm..were effused in the chest.
a. The earth-worm, L. terrestris.
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c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 150 Leie aboue lumbricus of þe erþe, þat beth erþe-wormes staumpid & boilid wiþ oile of rosis.
1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xiii. 202 In the Lumbrici,..every ring..is found to support a series of sharp retractile spines.
b. The round-worm which infests the intestines, Ascaris lumbricoides (frequently referred to Lumbricus).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Chaetopoda > order Oligochaeta > family Lumbricidae > member of genus Lumbricus
worma1100
roundworm1558
meadow worm1653
lumbricus1808
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Nematoda > family Ascaridae > genus Ascarides or Ascaris > member of > ascaris lumbricoides (stomach-worm)
maw-worm1582
stomach-worm1647
lumbricus1808
lumbricoid1882
1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 307 Since taking the electuary, [he] has voided another lumbricus.
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. ix. iv. i. 202 In a relaxed constitution of the body politic, acquitted and unprosecuted malefactors..are no less congenial..than the tænia, the lumbricus, and the ascaris are to the natural body.
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