tubifexes

Variant of tubifex

noun pl. tubifexes or tubifex

any of a genus (Tubifex) of small, reddish, freshwater, oligochaete worms, often living in chimneylike tubes: found esp. in polluted waters and often used as food for aquarium fish

Origin: ModL < L tubus, tube + -fex < facere, to make, do

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