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guinea-worm en · NOUN

Meanings

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 incision 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 889:

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Synonyms

dragon worm

Translations (6)

tr Gine solucanı (Dracunculus medinensis) · fi medinamato (Dracunculus medinensis) · cy llyngyr Gini (Dracunculus medinensis) · pt bicho da costa (Dracunculus medinensis) · cme tɛ̃tɛ̃iŋo (Dracunculus medinensis) · pt verme da Guiné (Dracunculus medinensis)