Usually means: Parasitic worm with proboscis hooks.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. spiny-headed worm: Merriam-Webster
  2. spiny-headed worm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. spiny-headed worm: Vocabulary.com
  4. spiny-headed worm: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. spiny-headed worm: Dictionary.com
  6. spiny-headed worm: Rhymezone
  7. spiny-headed worm: FreeDictionary.org
  8. spiny-headed worm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. spiny-headed worm: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. spiny-headed worm: Wiktionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spiny-headed worm: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spiny-headed worm: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. spiny-headed worm: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (spiny-headed worm)

noun:  A parasitic worm of the Acanthocephala phylum


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