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Answer for the clue "Creep! Groveller! Grub! ", 8 letters:
inchworm
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Word definitions for inchworm in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1844, American English, from inch (v.) + worm (n.). Other old names for it included loaper caterpiller and surveyor , all from its mode of progress.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dropworm \Drop"worm`\ (dr[o^]p"w[^u]rm`), n. (Zo["o]l.) The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm or inchworm . See inchworm and geometrid .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
"Inchworm" , also known as "The Inch Worm" , is a song originally performed by Danny Kaye in the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen . It was written by Frank Loesser . The song has become a popular children's song and is best known for its arithmetical chorus: ...
Usage examples of inchworm.
Moving like an inchworm, one hitching step at a time, he made his way out of his pavilion.
The pups rode beside them now, their bodies like inchworms, spindly limbs drawn up tight.
The caterpillar of the moth is a crop pest, a green inchworm known as the alfalfa looper.
The inchworm had negotiated the shoe and disappeared into the crushed leafery beyond, and the sawdust was mounding tremendously three or four inches high.
He remembered days when his father had taken him to fish for trout in Dewflood Stream, where the weeping willows bent low over the water and green inchworms hung from the willow branches on silken threads, taunting the trout.