noun
parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates
• Syn: ↑Guinea worm
• Hypernyms: ↑nematode, ↑nematode worm, ↑roundworm
• Member Holonyms: ↑Dracunculus, ↑genus Dracunculus
Useful english dictionary. 2012.