TRICHINA

noun (plural ~e; also -nas) Etymology: New Latin, from Greek trichinos made of hair, from trich-, thrix hair Date: 1835 a small slender nematode worm ( Trichinella spiralis ) that is a parasite of flesh-eating mammals (as humans and swine) with larvae that migrate from the intestines to striated muscles where they become encysted, ~l adjective