gnatworm

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English

Alternative forms

gnat worm, gnat-worm

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.

References

“gnatworm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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