Guinea-worm
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Noun
Guinea
(plural guinea-- A long, white parasitic worm, , which can live in the human skin.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 889:the rishta-doctors patiently removing guinea-worms, making an incision, trapping the three-foot-long creature's head in a cleft at the end of a stick, and then slowly winding it out of the incision