- a long slimy creature that lives in dirt and has no bones - Common annelid - Natural soil aerator - Soil-enriching creature - Any worm of the genus Lumbricus and allied genera, found
in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe
and America is L. terrestris; many others are known; -- called also
angleworm and dewworm. - A mean, sordid person; a niggard.