vermicular
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His speech was bumbling, his gait "vermicular," his appearance unfetching.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nobody went around in that day to explain the vermicular motion of the stomach or the upward action of nerve-force, or the psychopathic value of animal magnetism.
From The Faith Doctor A Story of New York by Edward Eggleston
Looked down upon, their motion seems peristaltic and vermicular, like that of three caterpillars.
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
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 George Gissing
This is called the peristaltic, or vermicular motion.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter
