vermicular
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His speech was bumbling, his gait "vermicular," his appearance unfetching.
From Time Magazine Archive
Adj. animal, zoological equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy; piscatory†, piscatorial; molluscous†, vermicular; gallinaceous, rasorial†, solidungulate†, soliped†.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
It facilitates the movements of the intestines upon each other during their vermicular, or worm-like action.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter
There is no telling how vermicular are the wrigglings of mean souls.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
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 Philip Henry Gosse
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