beard worm

Questions about beard worm

What is another word for beard worm?

It depends which beard worm you mean. In the sense “slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering; lives on the deep ocean bottom”, the synonyms are pogonophoran. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of beard worm?

WordNet records no antonym for beard worm. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for beard worm come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of beard worm

• Full entry for beard wormAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for beard wormWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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