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The animal is very wormlike in form; and although the shell is so small, yet all the internal organs are enclosed by it.
THE SEA SHOREWILLIAM S. FURNEAUXRings of muscle cause wormlike movements of the bowels, and so propel forward food and waste.
EPILEPSY, HYSTERIA, AND NEURASTHENIAISAAC G. BRIGGS"Ih dien mien, ih dien mien," shouted one, as he held out a huge blue bowl of white wormlike strings and a couple of chopsticks.
ACROSS CHINA ON FOOTEDWIN DINGLEHe named it vermiculatus, owing to the "wormlike" appearance of its markings.
BASS, PIKE, PERCH, AND OTHERSJAMES ALEXANDER HENSHALLTwo unequal branches of the early wormlike organisms shrank into strong protective shells.
THE STORY OF EVOLUTIONJOSEPH MCCABEAdelochorda—marine wormlike creatures having a notochord in the anterior of the body, and gill slits, both persistent; 2.
ZOOLOGY: THE SCIENCE OF ANIMAL LIFEERNEST INGERSOLLThe wormlike thread of men wound round picquet after picquet, and throttled the sentries on the glacis, and at the gate.
THE RISE OF CANADA, FROM BARBARISM TO WEALTH AND CIVILISATIONCHARLES ROGERIt usually remains motionless, lying on its side, or else displays its drowsy activity merely by feeble, wormlike movements.
THE GLOW-WORM AND OTHER BEETLESJEAN HENRI FABREVermiculate: worm-like in form: a marking with wormlike tracings.
EXPLANATION OF TERMS USED IN ENTOMOLOGYJOHN. B. SMITHThis is often more elongated than in the figure and more or less wormlike in appearance.
STUDIES IN SPERMATOGENESISNETTIE MARIA STEVENSWORDS RELATED TO WORMLIKE
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- like a snake in the grass
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- secret
- slick
- sly
- smooth
- snaky
- sneaking
- stealthy
- subtle
- surreptitious
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- wormlike
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