Noun guinea worm has 2 senses
  1. Guinea worm disease, Guinea worm, dracunculiasis - 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
    --1 is a kind of infestation
  2. Guinea worm, Dracunculus medinensis - parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates
    --2 is a kind of nematode, nematode worm, roundworm
    --2 is a member of Dracunculus, genus Dracunculus
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