a fabric, as of silk, cotton, or wool, whose pile is more than â inch (0.3 cm) high. adjective, plusher, plushest. 2. expensively or showily luxurious: the plushest hotel in town. 3. abundantly rich; lush; luxuriant: plush, rolling lawns. Origin of plush.
Worm. common name for various unrelated invertebrate animals with soft, often long and slender bodies. Members of the phylum Platyhelminthes Platyhelminthes, phylum containing about 20,000 species of soft-bodied, bilaterally symmetrical, invertebrate animals, commonly called flatworms.
I disagree with Glen. Yes, insects are animals, and so are worms. However, there is a problem with the term 'worm'. In scientific language, the term 'worm' is obsolete. Nowadays, the categorization of species is based on their evolutionary (phylogenetic) relatedness.