wormil

English

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• warble, worble, wormal, wormul, wornil

Etymology

Compare warble.

Noun

wormil (plural wormils)

1. Any botfly larva that burrows in or beneath the skin of animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “wormil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)