gnatworm
nounEtymology From gnat + worm.
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Rare The aquatic larva of a gnat.
- He that would behold a very anomalous motion, may observe it in the Tortile and tiring stroaks of Gnatworms1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, page 160:
- Here a rich insect-life had developped:^([sic]) Argynnis, wasps and Syrphidae, besides numerous dancing gnatworms.1909, Adolf Severin Jensen, “On the Mollusca of East-Greenland”, in Meddelelser om Gronland, page 345:
1 more example
- The fry of kaluga fish, gnatworms, freshwater prawns, mysids, etc.1962, Lev Semenovich Berg, Freshwater Fishes of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries, page 55: