guinea-worm
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Noun[edit]
guinea-worm (plural guinea-worms)
- A long, white parasitic worm, Dracunculus medinensis, which can live in the human skin.
- Synonym: dragon worm
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 889:
- 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
Translations[edit]
Dracunculus medinensis
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