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say it: HUU-kwurm
hookworm is a noun meaning "parasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts". It is pronounced /ˈhʊkwɚm/ — HUU-kwurm. It carries 2 recorded senses.
parasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts
infestation of the intestines by hookworms which enter the body (usually) through the skin
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 hookworm 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.