lugworm

1. 1.

   marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait

   Synonymsluglobworm

   Broaderpolychaete

   Part ofPolychaeta

Other forms of lugworm

plural

lugworms·

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.

Questions about lugworm

What does lugworm mean?

lugworm means "marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait".

How many syllables are in lugworm?

lugworm has 2 syllables: lug-worm. The stress falls on "lug". In IPA it is /ˈlʌɡwɚm/.

What is another word for lugworm?

Close synonyms include lug, lobworm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lugworm a common word?

lugworm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.