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skin worms

skin worms is the plural of skin worm.

Meaning of skin worm

Noun

skin worm (plural skin worms)

  1. A small worm or other parasite which infects the skin.
    • Alike desires perturbe both a skinne-worme [translating ciron], and an Elephant.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Questions about skin worms

What is skin worms the plural of?
Skin worms is the plural of skin worm.

Words near skin worms in the dictionary

  1. skin up
  2. skin virgin
  3. skin virgins
  4. skin wool
  5. skin worm
  6. skin worms
  7. skin-art
  8. skin-crawling
  9. skin-deep
  10. skin-dive
  11. skin-dived

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