vermicular

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

From Time Magazine Archive

This may readily be seen in the muscular action of the intestines, called vermicular motion.

From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.

It has hence been called vermicular, or wormlike motion.

From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Mayhew, Ira

A peculiar vermicular movement, beginning at his feet and ending at his head, was the precursor of a slow, vacant guffaw that expressed the most intense delight of which he was capable.

From The Ape, the Idiot & Other People by Morrow, W. C.

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