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PRONUNCIATION OF GLASSWORM

glassworm  [ˈɡlɑːsˌwɜːm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GLASSWORM

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Glassworm is a noun.
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WHAT DOES GLASSWORM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Glassworm

A glassworm is a type of midge larva called Chaoborus. They are also known as phantom midge larvae, because they are transparent. They can be found commonly in lakes all over the world and can be up to 2 centimeters in length. Glassworms are almost entirely transparent, except for pairs of black kidney-shaped structures in the front and the back of the body. These dots are the air sacs. They use these air sacs to migrate up and down in lakes. Glassworms breathe through the end of their abdomen and have two small eyes at the front of their bodies. Chaoborus adults do not bite or suck blood. Larvae live in open waters and even sediments, where there is no oxygen for them to breathe. In some lakes they can be found as deep as 70 m. In these deep anoxic waters they can avoid predation more easily than near the surface. They get around the fact that a normal air filled invertebrate tracheal system would fail at these depths by having it reduced to just two air sacs. They are predaceous, and catch their prey with their modified prehensile antennae. They look somewhat like mosquito larvae, on which they prey and frequently destroy in large numbers.

Definition of glassworm in the English dictionary

The definition of glassworm in the dictionary is a gnat larva.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GLASSWORM


bloodworm
ˈblʌdˌwɜːm
bollworm
ˈbəʊlˌwɜːm
bookworm
ˈbʊkˌwɜːm
budworm
ˈbʌdˌwɜːm
caseworm
ˈkeɪsˌwɜːm
cutworm
ˈkʌtˌwɜːm
earthworm
ˈɜːθˌwɜːm
earworm
ˈɪəˌwɜːm
flatworm
ˈflætˌwɜːm
heartworm
ˈhɑːtˌwɜːm
hookworm
ˈhʊkˌwɜːm
mealworm
ˈmiːlˌwɜːm
pinworm
ˈpɪnˌwɜːm
ringworm
ˈrɪŋˌwɜːm
rootworm
ˈruːtˌwɜːm
roundworm
ˈraʊndˌwɜːm
sandworm
ˈsændˌwɜːm
silkworm
ˈsɪlkˌwɜːm
tapeworm
ˈteɪpˌwɜːm
waxworm
ˈwæksˌwɜːm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GLASSWORM

glassful
glasshouse
glassier
glassiest
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glassily
glassine
glassiness
glassless
glasslike
glassman
glassmen
glasspaper
glassware
glasswork
glassworks
glasswort
glassy
glassy-eyed
glassyheaded

WORDS THAT END LIKE GLASSWORM

army worm
bagworm
cankerworm
corn earworm
deworm
fireworm
fishworm
glow-worm
Guinea worm
hornworm
inchworm
lindworm
lungworm
pillworm
threadworm
tube worm
webworm
whipworm
white worm
worm

Synonyms and antonyms of glassworm in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «glassworm» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GLASSWORM

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Translator English - Tamil

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Translator English - Marathi

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Translator English - Turkish

SAYDAM KURTÇUK
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Translator English - Italian

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Translator English - Ukrainian

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Translator English - Romanian

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Translator English - Afrikaans

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Translator English - Swedish

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Translator English - Norwegian

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Trends of use of glassworm

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GLASSWORM»

The term «glassworm» is used very little and occupies the 187.766 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GLASSWORM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about glassworm

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GLASSWORM»

Discover the use of glassworm in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to glassworm and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Fly-fishing Book
Larvae: In their larval stage, only the free-swimming larvae (bloodworm and glassworm) are normally found in the feeding samples of the rainbow trout. Most other larvae stay in their mud tubes on the lake bottom and so there is no point in  ...
Jeff Zhorne, 1999
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Articles on Nematocera, Including: Gnat, Eudiptera, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Hephaestus Books, 2011
3
Archiv Für Hydrobiologie
rocky for macrophytes but in Glassworm Tarn and North Lake Isoetes sp. grows. Batrachospermum sp. is common in the creeks near North Lake. Though phytoplankton is sparse in the oligotrophic Picton lakes there is a considerable number ...
‎1992
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Freshwater and Marine Aquarium
In the water butt the guppies were able to eat from a mixed menu of daphnia, cyclops, mosquito larvae, bloodworm and glassworm. They picked at the small amounts of flake food that I chucked in every few days. They settled well into their new ...
‎2007
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The Sea Around Us
It is the spawning timeof the copepodand the glassworm, the pelagic shrimp and the winged snail. Hungryswarmsof theselittle beastsofthe planktonroam through the waters, feedingon theabundant plantsand themselves falling prey tolarger ...
Rachel Carson, 2011
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WORD JUDGE USA
... GLASSPAPERED GLASSPAPERING GLASSPAPERS GLASSWARE GLASSWARES GLASSWORK GLASSWORKER GLASSWORKERS GLASSWORKS GLASSWORM GLASSWORMS GLASSWORT GLASSWORTS GLASSY GLAUCOMA ...
Maliha Mendoza Mahmood, 2013
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Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change
... one species of glassworm, and the result is a good herring year in Plymouth. In contrast, current from the Channel brings in water poor in phosphate, resulting in the predominance of other animal species and in failure of the herring fishery.
René Jules Dubos, 1987
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English Language Word Builder
... DRAWSHAVE DUCKSHOVE EARTHBORN EARTHWOLF ENTERTAKE EXTRAVERT FARMSTEAD FIREDRAKE FLASHTUBE FLOORSHOW FOOTSTOCK FORESPENT FORESWORN FRONTLIST GAVELKIND GLASSWORM GONIATITE ...
Bob Jackman, 2012
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Zoological text-book comprising Cuvier's four grand ...
Strongylus, (horse glassworm,) body round, long, pellucid, glabrous ; the fore part globular, truncate, with a circular aperture, fringed at the margin ; the hind part of the female entire and pointed ; in the male dilated into loose, distant, pellucid ...
Amos Eaton, 1826
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Living Waters: Ecology of Animals in Swamps, Rivers, Lakes ...
In longer-lived groups with rigid wings such as dragonflies, the combative males often show considerable wing damage by. Segmented predatory larvae of a dytiscid waterbeetle. A so-called glassworm, larva of a phantom midge supported by.
Nick Romanowski, 2013

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GLASSWORM»

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Open wide! Prize-winning image of carnivorous aquatic plant
Another aquatic image that featured in the top ten was this Phantom midge larva (Chaoborus), known to many of us fishkeepers as glassworm. «Practical Fishkeeping, Dec 13»
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The Startling Beauty of the Microscopic
Phantom midge larva (Chaoborus) "Glassworm." Birefringent musculature that is usually clear and colorless is made visible here by specialized ... «Smithsonian, Dec 13»
3
Insustry profile: aquadip
For instance, the Germans buy a lot of glassworm and brineshrimp, whereas the UK's largest spend is on brineshrimp, bloodworm and Daphnia ... «Pet Business World News, Apr 13»

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