Bookworm
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Bookworm can refer to:
- The insect of that name.
- A bookworm (colloquial) is a person who is particularly keen on reading, or devoted to academic study. Also see bibliophilia, for people who love books.
- Bookworm is a radio show on literature hosted by Michael Silverblatt on KCRW in Los Angeles, syndicated on 70 local public radio stations across the U.S.
- The Bookworm is also a painting by Carl Spitzweg, a German painter.
- Bookworm was also a comic strip in Whoopee, and later Whizzer and Chips.
- Bookworm is also a video game by PopCap Games.
- Bookworm was a puppet worm character on the Australian kids TV programme, The Book Place.
- WormBook is the online review of Caenorhabditis elegans biology. C. elegans is a free-living nematode worm used as a model organism for research.
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