(n): any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
(adj): relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida
"'The bottom of the sea must have been a sad stinking muddy place, to judge from your shoes and stockings.'
"So it was too... but the annelids, my dear Graham, the annelids! Hundreds, nay thousands of annelids of at least six and thirty several kinds, some plumed and others plain. And wait until I tell you about my holothurians, my sea-slugs, my sea-cucumbers...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 74