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Definition of Inchworm
1. Noun. Small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae.
Definition of Inchworm
1. n. The larva of any geometrid moth. See Geometrid.
Definition of Inchworm
1. Noun. The larva of a moth of the family Geometridae. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inchworm
1. a type of worm [n -S]
Medical Definition of Inchworm
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Inchworm
Literary usage of Inchworm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Teaching Young Children Ages 1-6 by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Jill Norris, Marilyn Evans, Cindy Davis (2002)
"Then measure the things around you using the inchworm. piece of paper an object to
... Flatten the wad into a cylindrical shape to make the inchworm. 2. ..."
2. Recommended Readings in Literature, K-8 by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"K-3 When about to be gobbled up by the robin, the inchworm tells the bird not to
eat him. The inchworm shows that he is useful and can measure things! ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1920)
"There is the inchworm's measure and the man's measure for virtually everything.
You must decide whether you mean to grow up to be a citizen of America, ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"inchworm, or MEASURING WOBM. See GEOMETRID MOTH. INCIDENT (from Lat. incidere,
to fall upon, from in, in + cadere, to fall). In law, a right, privilege, ..."
5. The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (southern California) Its Rivers and Its by George Wharton James (1906)
"It seemed to be fully a quarter of a mile long, and it came toward her, humping
itself in sections exactly as an inchworm or caterpillar humps itself in ..."
6. Concealing-coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of by Gerald Handerson Thayer, Abbott Handerson Thayer (1909)
"All naturalists perceive the wonderful perfection of the twig mimicry by an
inchworm, or of bark by a moth, or of a dead leaf by the Kallima butterfly. ..."
7. A Textbook in General Zoology by Henry Richardson Linville, Henry Augustus Kelly (1906)
"They can move either by a slow, creeping movement on the aboral surface, or by
the process of " looping," like an inchworm. Hydras exist for a long time in ..."
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