a fabric, as of silk, cotton, or wool, whose pile is more than â inch (0.3 cm) high. adjective, plusher, plushest. 2. expensively or showily luxurious: the plushest hotel in town. 3. abundantly rich; lush; luxuriant: plush, rolling lawns. Origin of plush.
Worm. common name for various unrelated invertebrate animals with soft, often long and slender bodies. Members of the phylum Platyhelminthes Platyhelminthes, phylum containing about 20,000 species of soft-bodied, bilaterally symmetrical, invertebrate animals, commonly called flatworms.
The hookworm is a parasitic worm (nematode) that lives in the small intestine of its host, which may be a mammal such as a dog, cat, or human. They can then infect unsuspecting humans by boring into their bare feet. Hookworm.