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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
sea worm en · NOUN
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A marine annelid.
Being fully exposed to the sea-breezes in three directions it is healthy, and the soft sandy heath offers great facilities for hauling up the praus, in order to secure them from sea-worms and prepare them for the homeward voyage.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 196:Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His antient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep,
The Kraken sleepeth: […]
There hath he lain for ages and will lie
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep […]
1830, Alfred Tennyson, “The Kraken”, in Poems, Chiefly Lyrical:
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