"Worm" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 chóng zi insect / bug / worm / CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1]
 rú chóng worm
 wō gǎn worm (mechanical engineering)
 chī ignorant / worm
 yù mythical creature / toad / worm
 gān worm
 jì suàn jī rú chóng computer worm / worm
 huán jié (zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc) / (fig.) a part of an integrated whole: aspect (of a project), element (of a policy), sector (of the economy), stage (of a process) etc
 jié zú xiān dēng the quick-footed climb up first (idiom) / the early bird catches the worm / first come, first served
 tào huà polite phrase / conventional greetings / cliché / to try to worm facts out of sb
 xī chóng trematoda / fluke / trematode worm, approx 6000 species, mostly parasite, incl. on humans
 náo chóng parasitic worm / human pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis)
 náo parasitic worm / human pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis)
 cù collect / frame for silk worm / nest
 yuān a small worm / to twist / to surround / empty
 qióng shǔ niè lí a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom) / the smallest worm will turn being trodden on
 chǐ huò looper caterpillar, larva of moth in family Geometridae / inch worm
 xī chóng gāng Class Trematoda / fluke / trematode worm, a parasite incl. on humans
 shā cán genus Nereis, with species including the sandworm and the clam worm
 miè chóng nìng bephenium, anti-parasitic worm medicine
线 guǎn yuán xiàn chóng "eel worm", a parasitic worm carrying meningitis
 nián chóng army worm (e.g. Mythimna separata or Leucania separata etc, major cereal pests)
 pán wěi sī chóng Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans
 pán wěi sī chóng zhèng "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, caused by the filarial parasite worm Onchocerca volvulus
 fù zhí xī chóng digenetic trematode worm (i.e. from Order Digenea 複殖目|复殖目)
 tào jìn hū to worm one's way into being friends with sb (usually derogatory)
线  Guinea worm / Dracunculus medinensis
  acorn worm
线  Guinea worm disease / dracunculiasis
  tube worm
 wō gǎn fù worm-gear pair / worm drive / worm and worm gear
 xuān wriggler / mosquito larva / to crawl / to worm along
 zhòng (literary) (of a worm or insect) to nibble / to bite / worm-eaten
 hǎi cháng zi (coll.) marine worm resembling intestines such as the spoon worm (echiuroid) or the peanut worm (Sipunculus nudus)
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