spiny-headed worm

1. 1.

   any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines

   Synonymsacanthocephalan

   Broaderworm

   Part ofAcanthocephala

Questions about spiny-headed worm

What does spiny-headed worm mean?

spiny-headed worm means "any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines".

What is another word for spiny-headed worm?

Close synonyms include acanthocephalan. 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 spiny-headed worm a common word?

spiny-headed worm 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.