Nematode Definition

nĕmə-tōd, nēmə-
nematodes
noun
nematodes
Any of a phylum (Nemata) of worms, often parasites of animals and plants, with long, cylindrical, unsegmented bodies and a heavy cuticle, as the hookworm or pinworm; roundworm.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Nematode

Noun

Singular:
nematode
Plural:
nematodes

Origin of Nematode

  • From New Latin Nēmatōda phylum name nemato– New Latin -ōda (alteration of -oīdea) (from neuter pl. of Greek -oeidēs -oid)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Formed as nemat- +"Ž -ode after the German Nematode or the French nématode.

    From Wiktionary

Nematode Sentence Examples

  • Potato cyst nematode cysts are only 0.5 mm in diameter on average.

  • Can we understand the underlying engineering designs that allow this tiny nematode to survive and flourish?

  • The nematode enters the bodies of vine weevil grubs, infecting them with a fatal bacterial disease from its gut.

  • An environmentally safer and lower cost solution may lie in an organism even smaller than the root-knot nematode.

  • A color photographs of the root knot nematode is also provided.

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