wormskin

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noun

the skin of a worm, or leather made therefrom, especially in fiction where worms are large creatures and have correspondingly large skins

“They wore wormskin boots.”

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Meanings

nounwormskin (countable and uncountable, plural wormskins)

plural wormskins

  1. countableuncountablethe skin of a worm, or leather made therefrom, especially in fiction where worms are large creatures and have correspondingly large skins

    They wore wormskin boots.

Origin

From worm + skin.

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APA

wormskin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wormskin

MLA

“wormskin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wormskin. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wormskin,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wormskin.

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