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.
Some insects have adopted the worm name including inchworms, glowworms and silkworms, but they do not have the characteristics of an actual worm. A commonly known worm is the earthworm, which is found in gardens and most backyards. Its tubular body and lack of legs, antennae or proper body segments is descriptive of all types of worms, although some worms do have mouths.