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 Eggleston, Edward

On the skin immediately adjacent to them being pressed with the finger nails, these bits of coagulated lymph will come from it in a vermicular form.

From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Burroughs, Barkham

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