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inchworm
[ inch-wurm ]
noun
- a caterpillar that moves along by bringing the rear end of its body forward and then advancing the front end, a motion known as looping; the larva of any geometrid moth. looper ( def 2 ).
inchworm
/ 藞瑟苍迟蕛藢飞蓽藧尘 /
noun
- another name for a measuring worm
Example Sentences
This should make it possible for it to, for example, wander across a surface -- similar to an inchworm that pulls itself along a branch in its own characteristic style.
And only a psychopath would raise a shoe to an inchworm, ladybug or other plausible picture-book protagonist.
Consequently, elephant seals can only scooch like an inchworm, lifting their bodies high in the air, dragging in their hind flippers under that mass, and, finally, pulling themselves forward with their front limbs.
Meanwhile, someone has been leaving Ellie a series of finely wrought wood carvings: a lamb, a flower, an inchworm, an acorn.
It鈥攐r whoever was in it鈥攁rched like an inchworm, attempting to creep away.
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