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| any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae | |||
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| a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects | |||
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| a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth |