vermicular

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The worm of workers passes three days in the egg, five in the vermicular state, and then the bees close up its cell with a wax covering.

From New observations on the natural history of bees by Huber, François

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

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 Roget, Peter Mark