spiny-headed worm

Noun
  1. Any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines (synset 101926045)
    is a type of: worm - any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
    belongs to: acanthocephala, phylum acanthocephala - phylum or class of elongated wormlike parasites that live in the intestines of vertebrates: spiny-headed worms
    same as: acanthocephalan

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