noun
1. a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin
• Syn: ↑Guinea worm disease, ↑dracunculiasis
• Hypernyms: ↑infestation
2. parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates
• Syn: ↑Dracunculus medinensis
• Hypernyms: ↑nematode, ↑nematode worm, ↑roundworm
• Member Holonyms: ↑Dracunculus, ↑genus Dracunculus
Useful english dictionary. 2012.