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groundworms

groundworms is the plural of groundworm.

Meaning of groundworm

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

Questions about groundworms

What is groundworms the plural of?
Groundworms is the plural of groundworm.

Words near groundworms in the dictionary

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

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