dracunculus medinensis
- n parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates
dracunculiasis
- n 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
dracunculus
- n tuberous herbaceous perennials: dragon arum
- n type genus of the family Dracunculidae