[
UK
/ˈɜːθwɜːm/
]
[ US /ˈɝθˌwɝm/ ]
[ US /ˈɝθˌwɝm/ ]
NOUN
- terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
How To Use earthworm In A Sentence
- He sat to the last moment doggedly struggling to keep cool and to mount the ciliated funnel of an earthworm’s nephridium. Love and Mr Lewisham
- Earthworms spend most of their time reproducing, eating and excreting, which is where their Hattiesburgamerican.com -
- Isabella felt like a chunk of sod when an earthworm burrows into it.
- Their work is so thorough that in the areas in which they live almost all the soil to a depth of many centimetres has passed through the alimentary tract of an earthworm at some time.
- My Ph.D. thesis concerned the metabolic mechanism by which the end product of nitrogen metabolism in the earthworm is switched from ammonia to urea during starvation. Stanley Cohen - Autobiography
- Make a classroom wall dictionary of all the new worm words your students are learning: annelid, fanworm, earthworm, flatworm, leech, lugworm, nematode, planarian, ribbonworm, spoonworm, tapeworm… to name several.
- The bacterial population of a cast is much greater than the bacterial population of either ingested soil, or the earthworm's gut.
- These tireless toilers of the soil include such creatures as the earthworms, woodlice and millipedes.
- It should be remembered in designing a control system that the earthworm transport hosts present a continuous reservoir of infection.
- Moles have small, sharp incisors and canine teeth that are used for catching and eating grubs and earthworms.