Groundworm

Alternative forms

• ground-worm

Origin

ground + worm

Full definition of groundworm

Noun

1. (dialectal, dated) earthworm
• 1828, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations, Volume 1, (1909), Journal XIX, p. 239They are scheming and talking, as if they belonged, like a toad or a ground-worm, to the acre on which they were born: