worm
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Emojis, Disney characters, cigarettes and more pile up in humorous scenes that include a saber-toothed tiger driving a dune buggy and a pair of corvids fighting over a worm.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
They can be contracted by touching objects or surfaces with worm eggs on them, and by eating or drinking something with baby worms in it - such as under-cooked beef, pork or freshwater fish.
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026
Earlier research suggested that worm eyes relied on a different class of opsins, so the presence of a vertebrate-type c-opsin came as an unexpected discovery.
From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2025
Collaborators at Utrecht University used the tool in the worm C. elegans, a widely used model organism.
From Science Daily • Nov. 23, 2025
My mind can dream about literally anything—and I end up dreaming about a worm.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
