| 单词 | spiny-headed worm |
| 释义 | spiny-headed worm (extremely rare) n WORD FAMILY spiny-headed worm USAGE EXAMPLESAfter burrowing into the walls of a fish's intestines, the spiny-headed worm Pomphorhynchus laevis inflates its proboscis to better embed itself in the soft tissue. Science Magazine(Apr 16, 2013) n any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines Syn|Hyper acanthocephalan worm any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae |
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