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wormer

wormer noun: dewormer, medicine used in deworming an animal.

Noun

wormer (countable and uncountable, plural wormers)

  1. Dewormer, medicine used in deworming an animal.
  2. Vermicide, any substance used to kill worms.
    • Dung beetles dived into delicious organic cowpats left by longhorn cattle that hadn’t been fed wormers and parasiticides2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian
    • If demand for the herbs is high we can add more wormers to the lobby and basement.2007 February 5, Rick Moranis, “12 Rms, 8 Bths, 38 Wind Turbines”, in New York Times

Forms of wormer

pluralwormers

Origin of wormer

From worm + -er.

Words formed from wormer

Questions about wormer

What does wormer mean?
Wormer means dewormer, medicine used in deworming an animal.
What part of speech is wormer?
Wormer is a noun.
What is the plural of wormer?
The plural of wormer is wormers.

Words near wormer in the dictionary

  1. wormed out
  2. Wormegay
  3. Wormeley
  4. Wormeleys
  5. Wormelow Tump
  6. wormer
  7. wormeries
  8. Wormerland
  9. wormers
  10. wormery
  11. wormes

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