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wheat-eel

wheat-eel noun: any member of the species Anguina tritici of nematode worm that causes earcockle in wheat.

Noun

wheat-eel (plural wheat-eels)

  1. Any member of the species Anguina tritici of nematode worm that causes earcockle in wheat.

Forms of wheat-eel

pluralwheat-eels

Questions about wheat-eel

What does wheat-eel mean?
Wheat-eel means any member of the species Anguina tritici of nematode worm that causes earcockle in wheat.
What part of speech is wheat-eel?
Wheat-eel is a noun.
What is the plural of wheat-eel?
The plural of wheat-eel is wheat-eels.

Words near wheat-eel in the dictionary

  1. wheat weevils
  2. wheat-ear
  3. wheat-ears
  4. wheat-eddish
  5. wheat-eddishes
  6. wheat-eel
  7. wheat-eels
  8. wheat-field
  9. wheat-fields
  10. wheat-plum
  11. wheat-plums

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