Word Meanings - TAINTWORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.

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• INSECTATOR
  A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey.
• DESTRUCTIVENESS
  The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy. (more info) 1. The quality of destroying or ruining. Prynne.
• PARASITIC; PARASITICAL
  Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See Parasite, 2 & 3. Parasitic gull, Parasitic jager. See Jager. -- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ness, n. (more info) 1.
• INSECTION
  A cutting in; incisure; incision.
• PARASITICIDE
  Anything used to destroy parasites. Quain.
• INSECTATION
  The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution. Sir T. More.
• LARVAL
  Of or pertaining to a larva.
• INSECTOLOGER
  An entomologist.
• INSECTIVORA
  1. An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects. Note: They are mostly of small size, and their molar teeth have sharp cusps. Most of the species burrow in the earth, and many of those of cold climates hibernate in winter. The order
• DESTRUCTIVELY
  In a destructive manner.
• INSECTIVOROUS
  Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is applied: to
• INSECTILE
  Pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects. Bacon.
• LARVA
  Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The larvæ of many insects are much like the adults in
• INSECTARY
  A place for keeping living insects. -- In`sec*ta"ri*um, n. Etym:
• INSECT
  1. Of or pertaining to an insect or insects. 2. Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
• INSECTED
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or resembling, an insect. Howell.
• DESTRUCTIVE
  Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the
• INSECTOLOGY
  Entomology.
• INSECTIVORE
  One of the Insectivora.
• INSECTICIDE
  An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder. -- In*sec"ti*ci`dal, a.
• LARVATE
  Masked; hence, concealed; obscure; -- applied in medicine to doubtful cases of some diseases; as, larvate pneumonis; larvate epilepsy.