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insect / bug / worm / CL: 條|条, 隻|只
HSK 4
(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
HSK 5
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  *蠢* | 蠢* | *蠢
stupid / sluggish / clumsy / to wiggle (of worms) / to move in a disorderly fashion
HSK 7-9
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  *虫* | 虫* | *虫
lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures / CL: 條|条, 隻|只 / (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic
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  *蠲* | 蠲* | *蠲
to deduct / to show / bright and clean / glow-worm / galleyworm / millipede
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  *豸* | 豸* | *豸
worm-like invertebrate / mythical animal (see 獬豸) / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 153)
the quick-footed climb up first (idiom) / the early bird catches the worm / first come, first served
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  *萤* | 萤* | *萤
firefly / glow-worm
a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom); the smallest worm will turn being trodden on
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  *蚩* | 蚩* | *蚩
ignorant / worm
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  *蠹* | 蠹* | *蠹
insect that eats into books, clothing etc / moth-eaten / worm-eaten
polite phrase; conventional greetings / cliché / to try to worm facts out of sb
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  *蜷* | 蜷* | *蜷
to curl up (like a scroll) / to huddle / Melania libertina / wriggle (as a worm)
damaged by moths or worms
trematoda / fluke / trematode worm, approx 6000 species, mostly parasite, incl. on humans
parasitic worm / human pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis)
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  *螠* | 螠* | *螠
echiuroid (spoon worm)
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  *肙* | 肙* | *肙
a small worm / to twist / to surround / empty
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  *蠉* | 蠉* | *蠉
wriggler / mosquito larva / to crawl / to worm along
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  *蚛* | 蚛* | *蚛
(literary) (of a worm or insect) to nibble / to bite / worm-eaten
lit. a door hinge never becomes worm-eaten / constant activity prevents decay (idiom)
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  *虷* | 虷* | *虷
worm
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  *蛲* | 蛲* | *蛲
parasitic worm / human pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis)
clitellum (worm anatomy)
genus Nereis, with species including the sandworm and the clam worm
annelid (worm)
worm
looper caterpillar, larva of moth in family Geometridae / inch worm
to decay and be eaten by worms etc / to overhoard grain so that it rots
(coll.) marine worm resembling intestines such as the spoon worm (echiuroid) or the peanut worm (Sipunculus nudus)
bephenium, anti-parasitic worm medicine
a type of poisonous fungus that grows on reeds, used in Chinese medicine to help cure patients suffering from ascaris (parasitic worms)
Class Trematoda / fluke / trematode worm, a parasite incl. on humans
to worm one's way into being friends with sb (usually derogatory)
silk from worms fed on leaves
Annelidan, the phylum of annelid worms
"eel worm", a parasitic worm carrying meningitis
army worm (e.g. Mythimna separata or Leucania separata etc, major cereal pests)
worm (mechanical engineering)
worm-gear pair / worm drive / worm and worm gear
Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans
"river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, caused by the filarial parasite worm Onchocerca volvulus
old worm-eaten books
to be moth-eaten / to be worm-eaten
digenetic trematode worm (i.e. from Order Digenea 複殖目|复殖目)
Order Digenea (including trematode worms that parasite humans)


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