wormlike
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- adjective
- /ˈwɜrmˌlaɪk/
:
vermiforme
- There would be their baby on the screen, ghostly, curled up, its bald head tucked into its wormlike form.
- wormlike creature
- wormlike larvae
- wormlike form
Examples
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Among other stunning creatures of unknown affinity, they discovered several specimens of a wormlike animal, some 8 cm (3 inches) in length.
Academic text (1990) -
The body is elongate, flattened, and wormlike, with the sclerites arranged in zones corresponding to forms previously named.
Academic text (1990) -
Are you still painting these little wormlike figures?
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"With this section as a measure, "the wormlike creature would be more than five feet in length.
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The balloons lengthened into wormlike tubes that wiggled across the decades.
Blog text (11) -
At closer range, these seemed to be devolving into a myriad of tiny white wormlike forms, which then disappeared writhing into the ground.
Fiction book (2002) -
Teredo is a mollusk with a wormlike appearance and a hardened shell covering one end of its body.
Academic text (2002) -
Here, nemerteans—yard-long, wormlike organisms—lay on the surface of the mud.
Academic text (1992) -
Those tests indicated that the moth's slender, wormlike larvae prefer to eat Lygodium fronds.
Academic text (2002) -
The scientist discovered a new species with a long, wormlike body in the rainforest.
Synonyms
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Moving with small twisting movements like a worm
Having a shape or movement like a worm
Long and thin with a round body like a worm
A shape that is long and thin like a worm
How Wormlike
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wormlike comes from the word worm 'a small, soft animal that moves by twisting' plus the ending -like 'similar to'. So it simply means 'resembling a worm' when something has the shape or movement of a worm.