earthworm

English

An earthworm

From earth +‎ worm. Compare German Erdwurm.

earthworm (plural earthworms)

A worm that lives in the ground.
A worm of the family Lumbricidae, or, more generally, of the suborder Lumbricina.
(figuratively) A contemptible person.

(a ground-living worm): rainworm, groundworm; wiggler, red worm, red wiggler (Southern US); nightwalker (New England); nightcrawler (Northern US, Western US); dew worm (US Great Lakes region, Canada)

(a ground-living worm): baitworm; fishworm (Northern US, Central US); angleworm (Northern US); fishing worm (Southern US) - fish bait

worm (animal)

Javanese: cacing lemah
Kalmyk: улан хорха (ulan xorxa)
Komi-Permyak: нидзыв (nidzyv)
Korean: 지렁이 (ko) (jireong-i), 지룡 (jiryong) (地龍), 지룡자 (jiryongja) (地龍子), 구인 (ko) (gu-in) (蚯蚓)
Latvian: slieka f
Lithuanian: sliekas m
Luxembourgish: Reewuerm m
Malay: cacing tanah
Manchu: ᠪᡝᡨᡝᠨ (beten)
Manx: dhiane m
Navajo: łeeyiʼ chʼosh
Norman: vèr dé tèrre m (Jersey)
Norwegian: meitemarker m
Polish: dżdżownica (pl) f
Portuguese: minhoca (pt) f
Romagnol: mondavèscuv m
Romanian: râmă (ro) f
Russian: дождево́й че́рвь m (doždevój čérvʹ), земляно́й червь m (zemljanój červʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: глиста f

Roman: glista (sh) f
Sicilian: casèntaru (scn) m
Slovak: dážďovka f
Southern Altai: чойлошкон (çoyloşkon)
Spanish: lombriz de tierra, gusano de tierra m
Swahili: choo (sw)
Swedish: daggmask (sv)
Tagalog: bulateng lupa
Tamil: மண்புழு (ta) (maṇpuḻu)
Telugu: వానపాము (te) (vānapāmu)
Turkish: yer solucanı (tr)
Vietnamese: giun đất (vi), trùn (vi)
Volapük: tailavum (vo), lumbrig
Welsh: pryf genwair m, mwydyn m (South)
White Hmong: cua nab
Zulu: umsundu class 3/4

person

death (fig.)

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