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Word Meanings - TAINTWORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.

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  • INSECTATOR
    A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey.
  • DESTRUCTIVENESS
    The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy. (more info) 1. The quality of destroying or ruining. Prynne.
  • PARASITIC; PARASITICAL
    Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See Parasite, 2 & 3. Parasitic gull, Parasitic jager. See Jager. -- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ness, n. (more info) 1.
  • INSECTION
    A cutting in; incisure; incision.
  • PARASITICIDE
    Anything used to destroy parasites. Quain.
  • INSECTATION
    The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution. Sir T. More.
  • LARVAL
    Of or pertaining to a larva.
  • INSECTOLOGER
    An entomologist.
  • INSECTIVORA
    1. An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects. Note: They are mostly of small size, and their molar teeth have sharp cusps. Most of the species burrow in the earth, and many of those of cold climates hibernate in winter. The order
  • DESTRUCTIVELY
    In a destructive manner.
  • INSECTIVOROUS
    Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is applied: to
  • INSECTILE
    Pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects. Bacon.
  • LARVA
    Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The larvæ of many insects are much like the adults in
  • INSECTARY
    A place for keeping living insects. -- In`sec*ta"ri*um, n. Etym:
  • INSECT
    1. Of or pertaining to an insect or insects. 2. Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
  • INSECTED
    Pertaining to, having the nature of, or resembling, an insect. Howell.
  • DESTRUCTIVE
    Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the
  • INSECTOLOGY
    Entomology.
  • INSECTIVORE
    One of the Insectivora.
  • INSECTICIDE
    An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder. -- In*sec"ti*ci`dal, a.
  • LARVATE
    Masked; hence, concealed; obscure; -- applied in medicine to doubtful cases of some diseases; as, larvate pneumonis; larvate epilepsy.

 

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