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WIGGLER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers

Synonyms:

angleworm; crawler; dew worm; earthworm; fishing worm; fishworm; nightcrawler; nightwalker; red worm; wiggler

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

oligochaete; oligochaete worm (hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body)

Holonyms ("wiggler" is a member of...):

class Oligochaeta; Oligochaeta (earthworms)

Derivation:

wiggle (move to and fro)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Larva of a mosquito

Synonyms:

wiggler; wriggler

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

larva (the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose)

Holonyms ("wiggler" is a member of...):

Culicidae; family Culicidae (mosquitoes)

Derivation:

wiggle (move to and fro)

Sense 3

Meaning:

One who can't stay still (especially a child)

Example:

the toddler was a real wiggler on plane trips

Synonyms:

squirmer; wiggler; wriggler

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

wiggle (move to and fro)

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