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wolf worm en · NOUN

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1. (US) botfly larva
   • No matter what the inconvenience, you must be concerned with such things as screw worms, wolf worms, scabies, ticks, lumpy jaw, teat fever. 1965, Oren Arnold, Irons in the Fire: Cattle Brand Lore, Abelard-Schuman, page 57:
   • Even the pretty fawn is full of wolf worms in the summer 2003, Vic Chesnutt, “Wren's Nest”, in Silver Lake:

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