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Meanings of lugworm in английском

Marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait.

Usage of lugworm in английском
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Synthetic clothing, skin exfoliants and toothpaste may not sound too toxic, but to a lugworm or filter-feeding mussel they are lethal poison.
The Irish Times
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Wind and tide shift the resultant silt across the surface of the bay, where shellfish, shrimps and lugworm feed hosts of wading birds.
The Guardian
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The worst part of this performance was digging the bait of lugworms on the little beach of Creviçhon.
Jethou; or, Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles
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The worm in the photo is one of 17,590 annelid species: others include earthworms, lugworms and leeches.
BBC
Lugworm through the time