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Wheatworm

A small nematode worm (Anguillula tritici) which attacks the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with smut, each of the diseased grains containing a large number of the minute young of the worm.

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Nematode 76% connected

Same as Nematoid.

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Roundworm 76% connected

A nematoid worm.

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Albumen noun · 78% connection

Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury pa…

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Alectryomancy noun · 78% connection

Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in…

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Army worm unknown · 78% connection

A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and…

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Arrowworm noun · 78% connection

any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at ea…

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Caddis noun · 78% connection

The larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of…

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Canker verb · 78% connection

To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, nematode, worm, anguillula, tritici.
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Cereal noun · 78% connection

grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet

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Chaetognath noun · 78% connection

any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at ea…

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Cheat noun · 78% connection

Wheat, or bread made from wheat.

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Chess noun · 78% connection

A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenera…

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Chinch noun · 78% connection

A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz…

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Corn noun · 78% connection

The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.

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Dollar noun · 78% connection

A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412…

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Dram noun · 78% connection

A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce…

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Eel noun · 78% connection

An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eels of Europe and America belong to the genus Anguilla. The electrical eel i…

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Ergot noun · 78% connection

A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fu…

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Filaria noun · 78% connection

A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. See Guinea worm.

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Grain noun · 78% connection

The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the…

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