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.
Acorn worms are marine animals that have an impressive ability to replace lost body parts. Surprisingly, humans have many of the same genes as the worms, including mostâand perhaps allâof the ones involved in regeneration. For an unknown reason, the regeneration pathway isn't active in us.