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Webster 1913 Edition
Dracunculus
‖
Dra-cun′cu-lus
,Noun.
pl.
Dracunculi
(#)
. [L., dim. of
draco
dragon.] (Zool.)
(a)
A fish; the dragonet.
(b)
The Guinea worm (
Filaria medinensis
). Webster 1828 Edition
Dracunculus
DRACUNCULUS
,Noun.
1.
In botany, a plant, a species of Arum, with a long stalk, spotted like a serpents belly.2.
In medicine, a long slender worm, bred in the muscular parts of the arms and legs called Guinea worm. These are troublesome in tropical climates, and are usually extirpated by the point of a needle.