pillworm
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any myriapod which rolls up for protection; a galleyworm.
Example Sentences
- "Another one (Armadillo rugulosus) is endowed with the power of rolling itself up in a ball like the "pill-worm" of the Old Country"
- "Objects of the Scheme:—(1) To produce intra hissutum and hissutum barbadense hybrids (F₁₁) possessing resistance to blackarm, red leaf blight and pillworm besides having economic and agronomic values and suitable for growing as such or by budding on perennial of stocks."
- "The PILLWORM is restless, aggressive, and nearly as destructive as, though more sophisticated than, the APHID."
- "The high beach inhabitants include different kinds of periwinkles, a burrowing worm called the pill worm, and the beach hoppers that often parade along the beach in great numbers in early morning or twilight."
- "an event which happened years earlier had eaten away at the parish in his charge as a pillworm eats at a plant."