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Small hairless caterpillar
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inchworm
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Word definitions for inchworm in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An inchworm is the caterpillar of a geometer moth. Inchworm may also refer to: "Inchworm" (song) , a song from the film Hans Christian Andersen Inchworm (toy) , a ride-on toy manufactured by Hasbro in the 1970s Inchworm motor , an electric motor patented ...
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 .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae [syn: measuring worm , looper ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The larva of a moth of the family Geometridae.
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.