red worm
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2.1
- noun
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lombriz roja
- In January, I started my red-worm wigglers composting bin, and it is wiggling around very nicely!
Examples
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Into some of the bins, he introduced red worms, hoping to raise a steady supply while producing compost to use for potting ivy plants.
Academic text (1997) -
Even so, he still has a healthy population of red worms living in the bins, along with some nice finished compost.
Academic text (1997) -
He held a thin, red worm in front of his face, examining it.
Fiction book (1992) -
Anglers often use red worms as bait to catch fish in various water bodies.
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To improve the health of your garden soil, consider adding red worms to help aerate it.
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After starting my composting bin, I was pleased to see many red worms thriving among the organic matter.
Synonyms
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1.0
A small soft animal without legs that lives in soil or water
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1.3
A small long worm that lives in soil and helps make soil healthy
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5.4
A small worm that lives in soil and is often used as bait for fish
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7.2
A small worm that lives in soil and is used for fishing bait
A common earthworm used as bait for fishing
A worm that people use as bait to catch fish
A worm, often an earthworm, used to catch fish
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Morphology
The compound simply describes a worm that is red in color, so a B1 learner who knows 'red' (a color) and 'worm' (a limbless invertebrate) can readily infer the referent. This descriptive, compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard adjective + noun formation, making the expression immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Red worm is a simple name for a small red worm that lives in garden soil and helps make the earth rich and loose. Gardeners and fishers often used them as 'bait', so the name came to mean a 'small reddish earthworm' used for gardens and fishing.