threadworm

American  

[thred-wurm] / ˈθrɛdˌwɜrm /

noun

1. any of various nematode worms, especially a pinworm.

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threadworm British  

/ ˈθrɛdˌwɜːm /

noun

1. any of various nematodes, esp the pinworm

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Etymology

Origin of threadworm

First recorded in 1795–1805; thread + worm

Example Sentences

However, researchers said the results were not conclusive on how well it treated threadworm.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2025

Thus far Government sanitary brigades have only sized up the enemy�a kind of filaria or threadworm, whose eggs are spread from victim to victim by gnats.

From Time Magazine Archive

The question is answered when hate notes and truck-loads of pansies are delivered to my training camp, the little sanctuary where I skip rope while listening to taped lectures on coronary collateralization and threadworm infection.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

In the development of the threadworm of the horse according to Boveri, the very first cleavage of the ovum establishes a distinction between somatic and reproductive cells.

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)

The highly intelligent threadworm neither knows nor cares that the point of intersection of two lines in his diagram represents a point in a space to which he is a stranger.

From Four-Dimensional Vistas by Bragdon, Claude Fayette