A burrowing marine bristle worm which is bluish-white with iridescent pink shading and a grey dorsal line.
Nephtys hombergi, family Nephtyidae
Example sentencesExamples
- Middle England is infested with ugly estates, radioactive waste, wriggling white worms, Japanese knotweed and ghosts that do not always wish the living well.
- The white worm is so long that it fits into the vertical case only by being draped up and down seven times.
- Get another shoebox, top to 3/4 full with dampened peat moss, and you have the insurance of a supply of white worms.
- Most prized of all are long, slimy white worms which are hacked out of mangrove branches and eaten live.
- The chemical that you could at one time purchase for white worm has now been withdrawn.