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語源

From lug (“anything that moves slowly”) +‎ worm.

名詞

lugworm (plural lugworms)

1. Any of several species of large marine annelid worm of the genus Arenicola
   1. especially the northern lugworm (Arenicola marina), whose coiled castings can often be seen on beaches at low tide.
      • 2022, Sara Baume, Seven Steeples, Tramp Press, page 100:

        The lugworms were shorter and lighter, with hispid gills and mucus-coloured tails.

   2. black lugworm (Arenicola defodiens).

同意語

• (Arenicola marina): lobworm, sandworm, blow lugworm

参照

• lugworm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Arenicola marina on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Arenicola marina on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “lugworm”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “lugworm”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.