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worm

[wurm] / wɜrm /


NOUN
grub
Synonyms


NOUN
maggot
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
















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Officially reaching its peak at 03:12 BST, the Pink Moon became the fourth full Moon of 2026, following the Wolf Moon, Snow Moon and Worm Moon.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

Paulson used an analogy involving a children’s book character named Lowly Worm who eats peas that create visible bumps on his body.

From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025

For my birthday, she gifted me a T-shirt featuring a worm with a mustache bracketed by the phrase “You’re a Worm with a Mustache.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024

“If anything, global shark mortality has slightly increased,” says Boris Worm, a marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Canada.

From National Geographic • Jan. 11, 2024

It was etched with the words Bumstead’s Worm Syrup.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm




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