Worm-drive
noun, Machinery.
1.
a drive mechanism utilizing a worm gear.
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- Wormed
noun 1. Zoology. any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids. 2. (loosely) any of numerous small creeping animals with more or less slender, elongated bodies, and without limbs or with very short ones, including individuals of widely differing kinds, as earthworms, tapeworms, insect […]
- Wormery
noun (pl) -eries 1. a piece of apparatus, having a glass side or sides, in which worms are kept for study 2. a container in which worms are kept, esp one in which they consume household waste and convert it into compost
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noun, plural (especially collectively) wormfish (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) wormfishes. 1. any of several small, slender fishes of the family Microdesmidae, inhabiting tropical marine waters.