vermicular
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His speech was bumbling, his gait "vermicular," his appearance unfetching.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Barkham Burroughs
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
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
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
