groundworm
التعريفات والمعاني
== English ==
=== Alternative forms ===
ground-worm
=== Etymology ===
ground + worm
=== Noun ===
groundworm (plural groundworms)
(dialectal, dated) earthworm
1828, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations, Volume 1, Houghton Mifflin (1909), Journal XIX, p. 239
They are scheming and talking, as if they belonged, like a toad or a ground-worm, to the acre on which they were born: