tank-worm

English

Noun

tank-worm (plural tank-worms)

1. A small nematoid worm found in the water tanks of India, supposed by some to be the young of the guinea-worm.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “tank-worm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)