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Definition: Bloodworm |
BloodwormNoun1. A segmented marine worm with bright red body; often used for bait. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Polychaete worms like this bloodworm, Glycera sp., abound in salt marsh sediments. Some of these segmented worms are free living while others are tube builders. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Bloodworm" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Bloodworm" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.91% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 9.09% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bloodworm | 7 |
bloodworm picture | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bloodworm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | دودة الدم. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | светлочервено червейче. (various references) | |
Dutch | rode larve (midge, non-biting midge). (various references) | |
Finnish | surviaissääsket (midge, non-biting midge). (various references) | |
French | ver de sang, chironomide. (various references) | |
German | Zuckmuecke (midge, non-biting midge). (various references) | |
Greek | χειρονόμος (midge, non-biting midge), ζωύφιο (animalcule, insect, mite). (various references) | |
Italian | chironomo (midge, non-biting midge). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 赤虫 (chiggers). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | あかむし (chiggers). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oodwormblay.(various references) | |
Russian | красный дождевой червь. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | glistica za pecanje. (various references) | |
Spanish | quirnomido (midge, non-biting midge), mosquilla (midge, non-biting midge). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Chironomus, Chironomus cavazzae. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bloodworm": bloodworms. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-l-m-o-o-o-r-w" | |
-2 letters: lobworm. | |
-4 letters: blood, bloom, bromo, brood, broom, dobro, dolor, drool, world. | |
-5 letters: blow, bold, bolo, boom, boor, bowl, broo, brow, doom, door, dorm, lobo, loom, lord, mold, mood, mool, moor, obol, odor, ordo, rood, room, wold, womb, wood, wool, word, worm. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-l-m-o-o-o-r-w" | |
+1 letter: bloodworms. | |
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