Noun: rainworm
| Singular | rainworm |
| Plural | rainworms |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like rainworm
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Old English reġnwyrm, from Proto-Germanic [Term?]. Analysable as rain + worm, because the worm has the habit of surfacing on top of the saturated soil after rainfall. Cognate with Dutch regenworm, Old High German reganwurm, whence German Regenwurm. See: Dutch Nouns '
regenworm', German Nouns '
Regenwurm'.
Verbs referencing "rainworm"
German Nouns
Regenwurm, Polish Nouns
dżdżownica.