guinea worm

noun — 2 senses

nounalso spelled guinea-worm

A species of nematode, (Dracunculus medinensis)

guinea-worm

noun

A long, white parasitic worm, of species Dracunculus medinensis, which can live in human skin.

the rishta-doctors patiently removing guinea-worms, making an incision, trapping the three-foot-long creature's head in a cleft at the end of a stick, and then slowly winding it out of the incision2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 889:

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