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Answer for the clue "Creature emulated in a dance that looks nothing like how the creature actually moves ", 4 letters:
worm

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Worms are many different distantly related animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body and no limbs . Worms vary in size from microscopic to over in length for marine polychaete worms (bristle worms), for the African giant earthworm, Microchaetus ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English wurm , variant of wyrm "serpent, snake, dragon, reptile," also in later Old English "earthworm," from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old High German, German wurm , Old Frisian and Dutch worm , Old Norse ormr , Gothic waurms "serpent, ...

Usage examples of worm.

From the first I sensed that we were not sailing new water, and indeed it caused me a moment or two of bafflement until I noticed the sorry state of the worms, and all became clear.

Saying this, he made a downward sweep of his open hand over the place where the Basha lay, and Ben Aboo shrank under it as a worm shrinks under a blow.

But years later, when he remained small, the mother thought of the fall and blamed herself for believing that nurse who was only good for doing bilharzia tests and checking for worms.

The worm would nest in his biochip along with the proposal and would affect his memory of this meetingeven with the Forget-Me-Notusing the same circuits and glands that the chip used to insert data.

The only nice thing about these little worms is that, unlike the corn borer, they enter the corn at the tip, and mostly only one worm inhabits an ear.

Worms, viruses, and Trojan horses would be their gifts to Grandmother, and they would leave explosive blocks, borers, and scramblers to infect the remaining data.

Cugel descended to the pens where a dozen worms idled at the surface of the water, or moved slowly to the thrust of their caudal flukes.

One end of this worm is attached to the cecum, which is the pouch that forms the beginning of the large intestine.

The Chickadee was staring into the sky, cocking its black-capped head toward the house, peering toward the nearest tree, and spinning with amazing lightness to seize a robin that only wanted to find a worm for its own breakfast.

Poor Chugger, nimbused before the twin-eyed glow of the Bronco, sits trapped inside the nose of this undulating steel worm.

It was added that I frequented the society of foreign ministers, and that living as I did with three noblemen, it was certain that I revealed, for the large sums which I was seen to lose, as many state secrets as I could worm out of them.

Lo, what saith of them the prophet Isaiah, that under them shall be strewed moths, and their covertures shall be of worms of hell.

Worms lodging in the cribriform plate of the ethmoid feed on the soft tissues of that region.

And, in order to understand every thing from the beginning, you must look through microscopes at the movements of amoebae, and cells in worms, or, with still greater composure, believe in every thing that men with a diploma of infallibility shall say to you about them.

There were gobble-mole ditches druggled through the meadow, dirt thrown up on either side in little dikes, a shower of earth flying up from time to time to mark the location of the mole as it druggled for beetles and worms and blind snakes.