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- Hypoderma - n. - A layer of tissue beneath the epidermis in plants, and performing the physiological function of strengthening the epidermal tissue. In phanerogamous plants it is developed as collenchyma.
- Hypoderma - n. - An inner cellular layer which lies beneath the chitinous cuticle of arthropods, annelids, and some other invertebrates.
- Hypodermatic - a. - Hypodermic.
- Wormil - n. - Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble.