EELWORM

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Meaning:

Any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms

Classified under:

Hypernyms ("eelworm" is a kind of...):

nematode; nematode worm; roundworm (unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eelworm"):

Anguillula aceti; Turbatrix aceti; vinegar eel; vinegar worm (minute eelworm that feeds on organisms that cause fermentation in e.g. vinegar)