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Terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil
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nightcrawler
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Nightcrawler ( Kurt Wagner ) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics , commonly in association with the X-Men . Created by writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum , he debuted in the comic book Giant-Size X-Men ...
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n. terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers [syn: earthworm , angleworm , fishworm , fishing worm , wiggler , nightwalker , crawler , dew worm , red worm ]
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
nightcrawler \nightcrawler\ n. A terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; an earthworm. It often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet, and is used as bait by anglers. The term is used mostly in the northern and western U. S. Syn: earthworm, ...
Usage examples of nightcrawler.
But finally, after twelve years, he pinpointed the location of the ivory: it was on Belamone XI, a frigid little oxygen world inhabited by the Nightcrawlers, snakelike beings that had recently pledged their allegiance to the Republic.
She undogs the hatchcover and pushes it open, hooking one calf through the ladder for purchase, her toe curled around a bar for a moment before she pulls herself forward and slithers through the opening like a nightcrawler into leafy loam.