wormy

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But its wormy shape gives it the ability to swim right into the gills of fish, where it drinks its fill of blood.

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2024

Surprisingly, more than 1400 of these wormy genes closely matched genes from the very mantises they parasitized.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 19, 2023

Here, a midnight selfie from the trip: in the camera’s white flash, Tara’s purple buzzcut and wide, wry grin; his sheepish moue at his wormy mustache.

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2022

They are descended from earthworms, and the ancestral wormy parasite from which they all came, 250-300 million years ago, was a blood-feeder.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2019

All he had done was to eat a wormy, no-good apple.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes