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say it: HEL-minth
helminth is a noun meaning "worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes". It carries one recorded sense.
worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for helminth come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.