slithery

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Then, hop back into the car for a side trip to the Bug and Reptile Museum, a small building with dozens of well-curated slithery things — snakes, insects, lizards and more.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2024

The slithery fish began to evolve into proficient hunters, and the new fossils hint that today’s bloodsucking species evolved from flesh-eating ancestors.

From National Geographic • Oct. 31, 2023

And the sight of her racing toward the camera in a slithery gush of arms and fury is the movie’s one good nightmare image.

From New York Times • May 24, 2023

Along with the mata mata turtle and reptile known as the tuatara, among the other animals studied were caecilians, a slithery type of amphibian with an outward appearance akin to snakes.

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2022

Or in the slithery thing Natalie saw swimming by in the water next, going in the same direction.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz