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词汇 gordian worm
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Definition of gordian worm in English:

gordian worm

noun
  • another term for horsehair worm
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Another name for horsehair worm is gordian worm.
    • Like all gordian worms the larvae of this family parasitize on a number of aquatic and terrestrial insects.
    • The phylum Nematomorpha (from the Greek nema, ‘thread,’ and morphe, ‘shape’), is a group of invertebrates called horsehair or gordian worms.
    • The phylum Nematomorpha (from the Greek nema, ‘thread,’ and morphe, ‘shape’), consists of a group of invertebrates, commonly called horsehair or gordian worms, that has no close relationships with any other living organisms.
    • They are very similar to gordian worms (Phylum: Nematomorpha) but shorter and always with a smooth cuticle.
    • In order to get back to the water, the gordian worms cause their hosts to hurl themselves into ponds or streams.
    • The juvenile gordian worm parasitizes land-living arthropods such as grasshoppers, locusts and beetles, but the adult is a free-living aquatic species which can only reproduce in water.
    • These creatures are also sometimes called gordian worms, because they can interloop themselves into a knot reminiscent of the famous Gordian knot of Greek legend.
    • I was feeding my two cats and I looked in their bowl and saw a bunch of tiny white worms in their water-from what I've read about in another site they seem to be gordian worms.
    • This is a gordian worm, a parasite of insects.
    • Horsehair or gordian worms are unusual invertebrates in the phylum Nematomorpha.
    • Horsehair or gordian worms are long, slender worms related to nematodes.
    • It shows the anterior and posterior ends of a nematomorph worm, horsehair or gordian worm.
    • French scientists have discovered that the gordian worm does not face certain death when its host gets eaten.
    • To our knowledge, this escape response by a gordian worm is the first example of a parasite or any organism surviving predation in this way.
    • A gordian worm or nematomorph, about 20 cm long, is the free-living adult form of the parasite that lives in camel crickets.
    • A gordian worm slides out of a frog's mouth, the frog having eaten the cricket in which the worm was living.
    • A common name of nematomorphs is gordian worm, which originated from its similarity in appearance to a knot, specifically one created by Gordius, king of Phrygia around 330 B.C.
    • Only in one specimen has a gordian worm been recorded.

Definition of gordian worm in US English:

gordian worm

noun
  • another term for horsehair worm
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A common name of nematomorphs is gordian worm, which originated from its similarity in appearance to a knot, specifically one created by Gordius, king of Phrygia around 330 B.C.
    • They are very similar to gordian worms (Phylum: Nematomorpha) but shorter and always with a smooth cuticle.
    • In order to get back to the water, the gordian worms cause their hosts to hurl themselves into ponds or streams.
    • Horsehair or gordian worms are unusual invertebrates in the phylum Nematomorpha.
    • The juvenile gordian worm parasitizes land-living arthropods such as grasshoppers, locusts and beetles, but the adult is a free-living aquatic species which can only reproduce in water.
    • To our knowledge, this escape response by a gordian worm is the first example of a parasite or any organism surviving predation in this way.
    • This is a gordian worm, a parasite of insects.
    • Another name for horsehair worm is gordian worm.
    • A gordian worm or nematomorph, about 20 cm long, is the free-living adult form of the parasite that lives in camel crickets.
    • The phylum Nematomorpha (from the Greek nema, ‘thread,’ and morphe, ‘shape’), consists of a group of invertebrates, commonly called horsehair or gordian worms, that has no close relationships with any other living organisms.
    • I was feeding my two cats and I looked in their bowl and saw a bunch of tiny white worms in their water-from what I've read about in another site they seem to be gordian worms.
    • Horsehair or gordian worms are long, slender worms related to nematodes.
    • French scientists have discovered that the gordian worm does not face certain death when its host gets eaten.
    • These creatures are also sometimes called gordian worms, because they can interloop themselves into a knot reminiscent of the famous Gordian knot of Greek legend.
    • A gordian worm slides out of a frog's mouth, the frog having eaten the cricket in which the worm was living.
    • It shows the anterior and posterior ends of a nematomorph worm, horsehair or gordian worm.
    • Only in one specimen has a gordian worm been recorded.
    • Like all gordian worms the larvae of this family parasitize on a number of aquatic and terrestrial insects.
    • The phylum Nematomorpha (from the Greek nema, ‘thread,’ and morphe, ‘shape’), is a group of invertebrates called horsehair or gordian worms.
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