screwworm

noun

Etymology

From screw + worm.

  1. inherited from *wr̥mis
  2. inherited from *wurmiz
  3. inherited from wyrm — “worm, snake
  4. inherited from worm
  5. compounded as screwworm — “screw + worm

Definitions

  1. A larva of a blowfly of species Cochliomyia hominivorax (New World screwworm fly) or…

    A larva of a blowfly of species Cochliomyia hominivorax (New World screwworm fly) or Chrysomya bezziana (Old World screwworm fly), of tribe Chrysomyini, parasitic in animals and sometimes humans, distinctive in eating living flesh of mammals, unlike most maggots, which eat only dead flesh.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for screwworm. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA