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Definition of Inchworms
1. inchworm [n] - See also: inchworm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inchworms
Literary usage of Inchworms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1910)
"... the most gorgeous costumes being, in their own way, climaxes of obliterative
coloration scarcely surpassed even by moths or inchworms. ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1920)
"We are meant to be men and women, not inchworms. If your measuring-rod is full
size, you can measure the great world by it, with all its wonder and promise ..."
3. The California Fruits and how to Grow Them: A Manual of Methods which Have by Edward James Wickson (1921)
"These are destructive leaf-feeding caterpillars, commonly known also as inchworms,
loopers or measuring worms, because of the peculiar looping gait by which ..."
4. Concealing-coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of by Gerald Handerson Thayer, Abbott Handerson Thayer (1909)
"And if they do tell, the same process, whatever it be, that has adjusted moths
to bark and made inchworms look exactly like twigs, must be everywhere at ..."
5. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and by Edward Howe Forbush, Willey Ingraham Beecroft, Herbert Keightley Job, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1912)
"It is said that for miles around there were no caterpillars or inchworms in the
oak woods for several years after a nesting, as the adults secured ..."
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