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Noun: Dracunculus medinensis
  1. Parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates
    - Guinea worm

Type of: nematode, nematode worm, roundworm

Part of: Dracunculus, genus Dracunculus

Encyclopedia: Dracunculus medinensis

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