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antiworm

antiworm adjective: preventing or countering worms.

Adjective

antiworm (not comparable)

  1. Preventing or countering worms.
    • antiworm medicine
  2. Opposite to the usual movements or behaviour of a worm (in studies of predators and prey).
    • an antiworm stimulus
  3. Countering or preventing worms (self-replicating programs).

Origin of antiworm

From anti- + worm.

Questions about antiworm

What does antiworm mean?
Antiworm means preventing or countering worms.
What part of speech is antiworm?
Antiworm is an adjective.

Words near antiworm in the dictionary

  1. antiwomen
  2. antiwork
  3. antiworker
  4. antiworld
  5. antiworlds
  6. antiworm
  7. antiworship
  8. antiwrinkle
  9. antiwrinkling
  10. antixenophobia
  11. antixenophobic

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