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groundworm

groundworm noun: earthworm.

Noun

groundworm (plural groundworms)

  1. (dated, dialectal) earthworm
    • They are scheming and talking, as if they belonged, like a toad or a ground-worm, to the acre on which they were born:1828, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations, Volume 1, Houghton Mifflin (1909), Journal XIX, p. 239

Forms of groundworm

pluralgroundworms
alternative formground-worm

Origin of groundworm

ground + worm

Questions about groundworm

What does groundworm mean?
Groundworm means earthworm.
What part of speech is groundworm?
Groundworm is a noun.
What is the plural of groundworm?
The plural of groundworm is groundworms.

Words near groundworm in the dictionary

  1. groundwoods
  2. groundwork
  3. groundworker
  4. groundworkers
  5. groundworks
  6. groundworm
  7. groundworms
  8. groundy
  9. group
  10. group action
  11. group actions

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