A very long parasitic nematode worm which lives under the skin of infected humans and other mammals in rural Africa and Asia.
Dracunculus medinensis, class Phasmida
Example sentencesExamples
And he does everything, like working a week a year as a carpenter, to go into Africa and help them get rid of Guinea worms and river blindness, and going to Cuba and talking Spanish, of all things.
We are planting corn, rice or wheat, and we're also dealing with Guinea worm, and river blindness, and chistocymsis and tropical diseases.
Definition of guinea worm in US English:
guinea worm
nounˈɡinē wərm
A very long parasitic nematode worm which lives under the skin of infected humans and other mammals in rural Africa and Asia.
Dracunculus medinensis, class Phasmida
Example sentencesExamples
And he does everything, like working a week a year as a carpenter, to go into Africa and help them get rid of Guinea worms and river blindness, and going to Cuba and talking Spanish, of all things.
We are planting corn, rice or wheat, and we're also dealing with Guinea worm, and river blindness, and chistocymsis and tropical diseases.