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guinea-worms

guinea-worms is the plural of guinea-worm.

Meaning of guinea-worm

Noun

guinea-worm (plural guinea-worms)

  1. A long, white parasitic worm, of species Dracunculus medinensis, which can live in human skin.
    • the rishta-doctors patiently removing guinea-worms, making an incision, trapping the three-foot-long creature's head in a cleft at the end of a stick, and then slowly winding it out of the incision2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 889
    Synonyms:
    dragon worm

Questions about guinea-worms

What is guinea-worms the plural of?
Guinea-worms is the plural of guinea-worm.

Words near guinea-worms in the dictionary

  1. guinea-fowl
  2. guinea-fowls
  3. guinea-pig
  4. guinea-pigs
  5. guinea-worm
  6. guinea-worms
  7. guineafowl
  8. guineafowls
  9. guineagrass
  10. Guineaman
  11. Guineamen

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