Definitions for nematode

nematode nem·a·tode

Spelling: [nem-uh-tohd]
IPA: /ˈnɛm əˌtoʊd/

Nematode is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 317 anagrams from letters in nematode (adeemnot).

Definitions for nematode

noun

  1. any unsegmented worm of the phylum Nematoda, having an elongated, cylindrical body; a roundworm.

adjective

  1. pertaining to the Nematoda.

Origin of nematode

First recorded in 1860-65; nemat- + -ode1

Examples for nematode

Heterodera Schachtii is the name given to a nematode which Mons.

A recharacterization of the nematode genus Blatticola Schwenk, 1926.

Gordius, gor′di-us, n. a genus typical of Gordiid, a family of nematode worms with a hair-like body.

The Trichina is a nematode worm, and not an insect, as it was at first called.

A few of the nematode species are free, living under stones and among seaweeds at about low-water mark.

The Clematis root disease is the depredation of a nematode or eel-worm.

Of the nematode worms there are many species of comparatively long, slender proportions, which constitute the family of Filarid.

I have also two species of nematode from Macropus giganteus.

Bastian, in short, was quite a martyr in the cause of nematode anatomy.

On a new species of nematode, Gongylonema orientale, found in Formosa.

Word Value for nematode
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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