HOOKWORMS

"HOOKWORMS" is a plural of: hookworm.

Date "HOOKWORMS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1960. (references)

Specialty Definition: HOOKWORMS

Domain	Definition
Health	A parasitic infection that may affect workers exposed to warm moist soil in which the larvae of the worm lives. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: HOOKWORMS

English words defined with "HOOKWORMS": Ancylostomatidae ♦ family Ancylostomatidae ♦ hookworm, hookworm disease. (references)

Specialty definitions using "HOOKWORMS": Ancylostomatoidea, Ancylostomiasis ♦ Hookworm Infections ♦ Necator, Necatoriasis. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: HOOKWORMS

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Like ascarids, people pick up hookworms as a result of unsanitary conditions. (references)
		Hookworms have a complex life cycle that begins and ends in the small intestine. (references)
		The human hookworms include two nematode (roundworm) species, Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: HOOKWORMS

"HOOKWORMS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "HOOKWORMS" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	83.33%	5	157,705
Noun (proper)	16.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HOOKWORMS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
hookworms	99
dog hookworms in	12
hookworms picture	10
dog hookworms	5
canine hookworms	4
human hookworms	3
hookworms in human	2
hookworms in puppy	2
cat hookworms	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: HOOKWORMS

Language		Translations for "HOOKWORMS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		Hakenwürmer. (various references)

Pig Latin		ookwormshay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: HOOKWORMS

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	anquilostoma duodenalis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: HOOKWORMS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "h-k-m-o-o-o-r-s-w"
	-1 letter: hookworm, showroom.
	-3 letters: whomso.
	-4 letters: homos, hooks, howks, moors, rooks, rooms, shook, whoso, woosh, works, worms.
	-5 letters: homo, hook, howk, hows, kors, mhos, moor, moos, mors, mosh, mosk, mows, ohms, oohs, rhos, roms, rook, room, rows, shmo, shoo, show, sook, whom, woks, woos, work, worm.
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