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  2. Bookworm (insect) - Wikipedia

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    The damage to books that is commonly attributed to "bookworms" is often caused by the larvae of various types of insects, including beetles, moths, and cockroaches, which may bore or chew through books seeking food. The damage is not caused by any species of worm. Some such larvae exhibit a superficial resemblance to worms and are the likely ...

  3. Vermeology - Wikipedia

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    Vermeology (from Latin vermes, worms) is the field of biology dedicated to the study of worms. [1] A person who studies vermeology is referred to as a vermeologist.. The umbrella term "vermeology" has fallen out of common use, as the animals known as worms belong to multiple phyla that are not closely related.

  4. Sabellaria spinulosa - Wikipedia

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    Individual worms are either male or female. In the English Channel, spawning mostly takes place between January and March and the larvae became part of the zooplankton. Development of the larvae take 4 to 8 weeks before they settle and undergo metamorphosis and start building tubes. The worms live for 2 to 5 years, or possibly for as long as 9 ...

  5. Dipolar compound - Wikipedia

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    In organic chemistry, a dipolar compound or simply dipole is an electrically neutral molecule carrying a positive and a negative charge in at least one canonical description. In most dipolar compounds the charges are delocalized . [ 1 ]

  6. Dauer larva - Wikipedia

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    For example, in George O. Poinar Jr's 1990 book on Nematodes and Biological Control, he describes Heterorhabditis, a genus of nematodes that harbors symbiotic bacteria that are highly pathogenic to hosts, but completely harmless to them. After the bacteria kill the host, they proliferate on the host's dead body.

  7. Worm - Wikipedia

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    Free-living worm species do not live on land but instead live in marine or freshwater environments or underground by burrowing. In biology, "worm" refers to an obsolete taxon, Vermes, used by Carolus Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for all non-arthropod invertebrate animals, now seen to be paraphyletic. The name stems from the Old English ...

  8. Bookworm Adventures walkthrough and cheats - AOL

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    GENERAL TIPS Right-click to return all tiles to the letter grid. Left-click on a letter in a spelt word to remove tiles from that letter rightward. Press "1" on the keyboard to use a Health potion.

  9. Spirorbis spirorbis - Wikipedia

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    Spirorbis spirorbis on Fucus, on the beach at Mwnt, Ceredigion. S. spirorbis is found on either side of the north Atlantic Ocean. This includes the coasts of Great Britain, Ireland, Spain and Portugal, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, the Gulf of St Lawrence and the St Lawrence estuary, [3] perhaps even North Norway to the English Channel and Cape Cod.