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