Synonyms of the word

earthworm

• n. A worm that lives in the ground.
• n. A worm of the Lumbricidae family, or, more generally, of the Lumbricina suborder.
• n. (figuratively) A contemptible person.

angleworm

• n. (Northern US) An earthworm, used as or destined to be used as bait to catch fish.

crawler

• n. (Australia, obsolete) A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant.
• n. (Britain, Australia, slang) A sycophant.
• n. A child who is able to creep using his hands and knees but is not able to walk.
• n. (sports) A crawl swimmer.
• n. A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
• n. A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as webpage links.

fishworm

• n. A worm used as bait in angling.

nightcrawler

• n. An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
• n. (chiefly Northern US, Western US) More generally, any arbitrarily large earthworm, especially those favored…

nightwalker

• n. (fantasy) A vampire.

oligochaete

• n. Any of various hermaphroditic aquatic and terrestrial annelid worms, of the class Oligochaeta, that have…

wiggler

• n. Anything that wiggles.
• n. The larva of a mosquito.
• n. (Southern US) An earthworm.
• n. (physics) A magnet designed to make a beam of charged particles follow a curving path in a accelerator.