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English
Etymology
From gnat + worm.
Noun
gnatworm (plural gnatworms)
- (rare) The aquatic larva of a gnat.
- Synonym: wiggler
1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, page 160:He that would behold a very anomalous motion, may observe it in the Tortile and tiring stroaks of Gnatworms
1909, Adolf Severin Jensen, “On the Mollusca of East-Greenland”, in Meddelelser om Gronland, page 345:Here a rich insect-life had developped: Argynnis, wasps and Syrphidae, besides numerous dancing gnatworms.
1962, Lev Semenovich Berg, Freshwater Fishes of the U.S.S.R. and Adjacent Countries, page 55:The fry of kaluga fish, gnatworms, freshwater prawns, mysids, etc.
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