lugworm

(lug’wérm),n. [ lobworm.] An annelid of the family Are nicol ide, inhabiting the sea-shore. A common species is A rent cola piscatorum, a large worm, 8 or 10 inches long, much used for bait. It belongs to a different order from the earthworm proper, though its habits are similar. It crawls through sandy and muddy soil, eating its way as it goes, and leaving in its wake coiled casts of the soil thus pa ed through its body. The head is large, eyele and jawle , with a proboscis; the gills are thirteen pairs of gaily colored tufts, and the rings of the body are furnished with bristles like those of other cheetopod worms. Also called lobworm and lugbait.