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Overview

Worms are many different distantly related bilateral animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limbs, and no eyes (though not always). Worms vary in size from microscopic to over in length for marine polychaete worms (bristle worms); for the African giant earthworm, Microchaetus rappi; and for the marine nemertean worm (bootlace worm), Lineus longissimus. Various types of worm occupy a small variety of parasitic niches, living inside the bodies of other animals. Free-living worm species do not live on land but instead live in marine or freshwater environments or underground by burrowing. In biology, "worm" refers to an obsolete taxon, vermes, used by Carolus Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for all non-arthropod invertebrate animals, now seen to be paraphyletic. The name stems from the Old English word wyrm. Most animals called "worms" are invertebrates, but the term is also used for the amphibian caecilians and the slowworm Anguis, a legless burrowing lizard. Invertebrate animals commonly called "worms" include annelids (earthworms and marine polychaete or bristle worms), nematodes (roundworms), platyhelminthes (flatworms), marine nemertean worms ("bootlace worms"), marine Chaetognatha (arrow worms), priapulid worms, and insect larvae such as grubs and maggots. Worms may also be called helminths—particularly in medical terminology—when referring to parasitic worms, especially the Nematoda (roundworms) and Cestoda (tapeworms) which reside in the intestines of their host. When an animal or human is said to "have worms", it means that it is infested with parasitic worms, typically roundworms or tapeworms. Lungworm is also a common parasitic worm found in various animal species such as fish and cats.

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Notable quotes

“As I was led to keep in my study during many months worms in pots filled with earth, I became interested in them, and wished to learn how far they acted consciously, and how much mental power they displayed.”
— Charles Darwin, The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms (1881) Introduction, pp. 2–3
“Remember: walk without rhythm and we won't attract the worm.”
— Paul Atreides (Kyle MacLachlan) in Dune (1984 film), written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert
“The butterfly was just a lowly worm in its beginning. The worm didn't live with the moment-to-moment expectation of sprouting wings and taking flight. He lived a useful and productive life, the life of a worm.  And he had to die a worm in order to be born as an angel!”
— Henry Miller, published posthumously in Twinka Thiebaud (ed.) Reflections (Capra Press, 1981) p. 76
“One day you're thinking and hauling yourself around, and the next, you're cold fertilizer, worm buffet.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club (1996) ch. 4
“Why should the worm intrude the maiden bud?”
— William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece (1594) l. 848
“. / Tsu a vorem in khreyn, di velt iz khreyn.”
— To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish.

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Not who you're looking for? Others named worm: fictional character in the Marvel Universe · radio station · family name · 2014 film directed by Doug Mallette

Notable quotes

“As I was led to keep in my study during many months worms in pots filled with earth, I became interested in them, and wished to learn how far they acted consciously, and how much mental power they displayed.”
— Charles Darwin, The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms (1881) Introduction, pp. 2–3
“Remember: walk without rhythm and we won't attract the worm.”
— Paul Atreides (Kyle MacLachlan) in Dune (1984 film), written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert
“The butterfly was just a lowly worm in its beginning. The worm didn't live with the moment-to-moment expectation of sprouting wings and taking flight. He lived a useful and productive life, the life of a worm.  And he had to die a worm in order to be born as an angel!”
— Henry Miller, published posthumously in Twinka Thiebaud (ed.) Reflections (Capra Press, 1981) p. 76
“One day you're thinking and hauling yourself around, and the next, you're cold fertilizer, worm buffet.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club (1996) ch. 4
“Why should the worm intrude the maiden bud?”
— William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece (1594) l. 848
“. / Tsu a vorem in khreyn, di velt iz khreyn.”
— To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Worms are many different distantly related bilateral animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limbs, and no eyes (though not always). Worms vary in size from microscopic to over in length for marine polychaete worms (bristle worms); for the African giant earthworm, Microchaetus rappi; and for the marine nemertean worm (bootlace worm), Lineus longissimus. Various types of worm occupy a small variety of parasitic niches, living inside the bodies of other animals. Free-living worm species do not live on land but instead live in marine or freshwater environments or underground by burrowing. In biology, "worm" refers to an obsolete taxon, vermes, used by Carolus Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for all non-arthropod invertebrate animals, now seen to be paraphyletic. The name stems from the Old English word wyrm. Most animals called "worms" are invertebrates, but the term is also used for the amphibian caecilians and the slowworm Anguis, a legless burrowing lizard. Invertebrate animals commonly called "worms" include annelids (earthworms and marine polychaete or bristle worms), nematodes (roundworms), platyhelminthes (flatworms), marine nemertean worms ("bootlace worms"), marine Chaetognatha (arrow worms), priapulid worms, and insect larvae such as grubs and maggots. Worms may also be called helminths—particularly in medical terminology—when referring to parasitic worms, especially the Nematoda (roundworms) and Cestoda (tapeworms) which reside in the intestines of their host. When an animal or human is said to "have worms", it means that it is infested with parasitic worms, typically roundworms or tapeworms. Lungworm is also a common parasitic worm found in various animal species such as fish and cats.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).