A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insectsuntil near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water,in which they deposit their eggs; -- called also hair eel, hairworm,and hair snake, from the absurd, but common and widely diffused,notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs.

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