From one side of this projects a little wormlike tube, twisted and coiled upon itself, from three to six inches long and of about the size of a slate pencil.
An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes.
A group of small wormlike animals, having cilia on the ventral side.
Wormlike in shape; covered with wormlike elevations; marked with irregular fine lines of color, or with irregular wavy impressed lines like worm tracks; as, a vermiculate nut.
Defn: Applied to the peculiar wormlike wave motion of the intestines and other similar structures, produced by the successive contraction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their contents onwards; as, peristaltic movement.
Defn: The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name.
Defn: A group of very lowly organized, wormlike parasites, including the Dicyemata.
Defn: An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes.
Its wormlike form divides into thorax and abdomen.
In some way the insects are descended from the worms, and though they have got rid of many of their wormlike parts they still retain some of them, and probably among these are the ocelli.
We saw that a vast and varied wormlike population must have filled the Archaean ocean, and that all the higher lines of animal development start from one or other point in this broad kingdom.
Two unequal branches of the early wormlike organisms shrank into strong protective shells.
Lizards, like snakes, have a scaly skin covered with a thin, horny pellicle which is shed from time to time, flaking off in pieces except in the wormlike species, where it is sloughed whole as by snakes.
Adelochorda--marine wormlike creatures having a notochord in the anterior of the body, and gill slits, both persistent; 2.
It usually remains motionless, lying on its side, or else displays its drowsy activity merely by feeble, wormlike movements.
The creature contracts, bends its head under its belly and slides its front half over its hinder half by wormlike movements so slow that the lens can hardly detect them.
In these respects the countless varieties of insects agree so that they also like crustacea of various kinds seem to have been derived from wormlike animals with more simply segmented bodies.
Comparing it in other respects with other low wormlike creatures, it appears to be a relative of peculiar simple worms with complete organization and independence of life.
An extensive group of wormlike animals characterized by being more or less covered with cilia.
The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name.
A group of very lowly organized, wormlike parasites, including the Dicyemata.
An order of tailless amphibians having a slender, wormlike body with regular annulations, and usually with minute scales imbedded in the skin.
A small worm or insect larva; also, a wormlike body.
A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.
A group ofwormlike invertebrates having, along the sides of the body, branchial openings for the branchial sacs, which are formed by diverticula of the alimentary canal.
The natural wormlike or ringlike contraction of the gut favors the passage of the contracted or paralyzed portion into that immediately behind it.
In applying the ear to the flank, on either the right or left side, certain bubbling sounds may be heard that are known as peristaltic sounds, because they are produced by peristalsis, or wormlike contraction of the intestines.
They are usually small creatures, with soft, flattened, unsegmented bodies, though some of the larger species are really wormlike in form, and are more or less distinctly divided into a chain of segments.
We have already referred to the sea cucumber as wormlike in form, and this creature is only one of a large number of wormlike animals that are not worms; and it is also a fact that a considerable number of the worms are not wormlike.
The animal is very wormlike in form; and although the shell is so small, yet all the internal organs are enclosed by it.
The wormlikeanimals are grouped into flatworms, roundworms, and segmented or jointed worms.
After about one week of active feeding, these wormlike maggots become quiet and go into the pupal stage, whence under favorable conditions they emerge within less than another week as adult flies.
Still other wormlike creatures called roundworms are of importance to man.
The eggs hatch out in four or five days into rapid-growing wormlike caterpillars, each of which will shed its skin several times before it becomes full size.
Other forms of life, especially spiders, which have four pairs of walking legs, centipedes and millepedes, both of which are wormlike and have many pairs of legs, may be found.
Ocelli appear to be primitive types of insect eye which are, perhaps, an inheritance from a wormlike ancestor.
The eggs generally hatch in a few days, and a minute, white, wormlike larva emerges (Fig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wormlike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: serpentine; snaky; wormy
