guinea worm

Noun guinea worm has 2 senses

• guinea worm(n = noun.state) dracunculiasis, guinea worm disease - a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin;
is a kind of infestation

• guinea worm(n = noun.animal) dracunculus medinensis - parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates;
is a kind of nematode, nematode worm, roundworm
is a member of dracunculus, genus dracunculus