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Worms The term used for a ‘parasitic worm’ is ‘helminth’, the establishment definition of which is, “any of the various parasitic worms, including the flukes, tapeworms and nematodes.”
Dawn Lester • What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong
Fungi are in between animals and plants. Their cell walls are made of chitin—a substance never found in plants—which makes them more like insects.
Peter Wohlleben • The Hidden Life of Trees: The International Bestseller
You are truly a wonder. But then so, it must be said, is an earthworm.
Bill Bryson • The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Catfish
Bob Flaws • The Tao of Healthy Eating
They are eating rock, making soil, digesting pollutants, nourishing and killing plants, surviving in space, inducing visions, producing food, making medicines, manipulating animal behavior, and influencing the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Merlin Sheldrake • Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
That makes fungi the largest known living organisms in the world.