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Tylenchus

noun

type genus of the family Tylenchidae

• Syn: ↑genus Tylenchus

• Hypernyms: ↑worm genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Tylenchidae, ↑family Tylenchidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑wheatworm, ↑wheat eel, ↑wheat eelworm, ↑Tylenchus tritici

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\\-kəs\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from tyl- + Greek enchos spear

: a genus of nematode worms (family Tylenchidae) usually restricted to soil-dwelling forms that are saprophagous or feed on roots but formerly including numerous serious plant parasites (as the bulb eelworm) that are mostly placed in the genus Anguina

Useful english dictionary. 2012.