vermicular

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

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 Roget, Peter Mark

It was a notable object in the dim little church, having a wooden canopy supported on four slim oak pillars with vermicular moulding.

From Demos by Gissing, George

That vermicular movement which we noticed in the oesophagus and in the stomach is found here also.

From The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals by Macé, Jean