DRACUNCULUS MEDINENSIS

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Meaning:

Parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates

Synonyms:

Dracunculus medinensis; Guinea worm

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Dracunculus medinensis" 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)

Holonyms ("Dracunculus medinensis" is a member of...):

Dracunculus; genus Dracunculus (type genus of the family Dracunculidae)

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