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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines;
[syn: acanthocephalan, spiny-headed worm]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

acanthocephalan n 1: any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines [syn: acanthocephalan, spiny-headed worm]