Gordian Worm Small 211×320 Medium 422×640 Large 675×1024 Download Tiff Original 1581×2400 | (791.0 KB) Description "The Young Variable Gordius, after escaping from the egg. a, the worm beginning to protrude the oral apparatus." -Whitney, 1911 Keywords egg, Gordian worm, gordius, hair eel, hair worm, horsehair worm, Nematomorpha Galleries Worms Source: William Dwight Whitney The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1911)