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gnatworm en · NOUN

Etymology

From gnat + worm.

Meanings

1. (rare) The aquatic larva of a gnat.
   • He that would behold a very anomalous motion, may observe it in the Tortile and tiring stroaks of Gnatworms 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, page 160:
   • Here a rich insect-life had developped:^([sic]) Argynnis, wasps and Syrphidae, besides numerous dancing gnatworms. 1909, Adolf Severin Jensen, “On the Mollusca of East-Greenland”, in Meddelelser om Gronland, page 345:
   • The fry of kaluga fish, gnatworms, freshwater prawns, mysids, etc. 1962, Lev Semenovich Berg, Freshwater Fishes of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries, page 55:

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Synonyms

wiggler