Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
{Guinea plum} (Bot.), the fruit of {Parinarium excelsum}, a
large West African tree of the order {Chrysobalane[ae]},
having a scarcely edible fruit somewhat resembling a plum,
which is also called {gray plum} and {rough-skin plum}.
{Guinea worm} (Zo["o]l.), a long and slender African nematoid
worm ({Filaria Medinensis}) of a white color. It lives in
the cellular tissue of man, beneath the skin, and produces
painful sores.
Source : WordNet®
Guinea worm
n 1: a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by
drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm
larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until
the worm emerges through a painful blister in the
person's skin [syn: {Guinea worm disease}, {dracunculiasis}]
2: parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the
abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other
vertebrates [syn: {Dracunculus medinensis}]