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Insect named for the way it moves, not for its length
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inchworm
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Word definitions for inchworm in dictionaries
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 .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The larva of a moth of the family Geometridae.
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 ...
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.