Crossword-Solution: EELWORM
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| A nematode | 1 answer |
| Certain parasitic creepy-crawler | 1 answer |
| Small nematode | 1 answer |
| Tiny garden parasite | 1 answer |
| nema | 1 answer |
| Nematode | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ECMAEZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EELWORM (5)
Root-knot Eelworm.—One of the worst pests that a Cucumber-grower has to deal with manifests itself by the presence of minute warts or nodosities, chiefly on the rootlets.
Perhaps the most virulent forms of disease with which the Tomato-grower is troubled arise from the attacks of parasitic fungi and bacteria, among which the following are most frequently met with:— SLEEPY DISEASE, or TOMATO WILT.—In its outward symptoms and effects this disease somewhat resembles an attack of Root-knot Eelworm, but the swellings are absent from the root.
But when only slight traces of the disease are apparent, partial sterilisation of the soil by means of carbolic acid, as recommended for Root-knot Eelworm on page 425, may be adopted.
Brazil, and some other American coffee-producing countries, have a serious disease caused by the eelworm, and for that reason called the eelworm disease.
OTHER PARASITES A number of other parasitic worms (e.g., _Strongyloides_, _Ascaris_ or eelworm, and _Oxyuria_ or pinworm) may conceivably enter the human body in contaminated food, and while, as in hookworm disease, other modes of infection are probably more important, the liability to occasional infection by uncooked food must not be overlooked.
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Appears in: Crossroads, NYT, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1981–2015).