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.
Wormlike parasites are called helminths. Worms usually live in the gastrointestinal tract. Common worms include roundworms, tapeworms and hookworms. Infection is usually more common in areas with poor sanitation, poor personal hygiene, or where human faeces are used as fertiliser.