vermicular

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His speech was bumbling, his gait "vermicular," his appearance unfetching.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under the microscope, this proved an Oscillatoria, which I could not identify with any of the described species in Harvey's Phytologia: the filaments creeping and twining with the peculiar vermicular movements of the genus.

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry

The etched scene of Sikes's desperation on the roof of a house in Jacob's Island, Bermondsey, is in essence Misery itself, vermicular as well as violent.

From George Cruikshank by Chesson, W. H.

It is this vermicular insignificance of the gossip that makes his detection so difficult, and gives him his security.

From Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Le Gallienne, Richard

It was a notable object in the dim little church, having a wooden canopy supported on four slim oak pillars with vermicular moulding.

From Demos by Gissing, George