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An earthworm is a common worm that lives in the soil. It is long and thin, usually brown or pinkish-brown, with a soft body and no legs. It pulls dead leaves and soil through itself and leaves behind small heaps that feed plants; are glad to see many of them. After rain they come up onto paths. The word is ordinary — children learn it, and scientists use it too. It is not a baby snake, and it is not an insect. Though actually, worm in English covers many long soft creatures; an earthworm is the familiar garden one, not a tapeworm or a .
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組成From Middle English erthe-worm; earth (soil) + worm. Dutch aardworm and German Erdwurm are built the same way.
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
earthwormnoun/ˈɜː(ɹ)θˌwɜː(ɹ)m/
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A worm that lives in the ground.
- It does not, however, happen that the whole spermatosphere is converted into spermatoblasts; there remains a passive portion, which in the earthworm occupies a central position; this is the "sperm-blasophore," or "blastophoral cell."
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A worm of the family Lumbricidae, or, more generally, of the suborder Lumbricina.
- Before the study was begun, the known oligochaete fauna of Tasmania consisted of six species of aquatic microdriles, twenty-three indigenous species of megascolecid earthworms, and introduced earthworms of the family Lumbricidae.
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A contemptible person; a groveller.
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