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vermigrade

vermigrade adjective: wriggling like a worm.

Adjective

vermigrade (not comparable)

  1. wriggling like a worm
    • My working hunch was that the very young leopard frog tadpole would make a near-perfect donor. […] While he’s little, he’ll mimp-mouth algae from the flanks of a tubifex and harm nothing but a little vermigrade pride.1973, Barry N. Schwartz, Human Connection and the New Media, page 170

Origin of vermigrade

Coined by Irish writer Samuel Beckett. From vermi- + -grade (“way of walking”).

Questions about vermigrade

What does vermigrade mean?
Vermigrade means wriggling like a worm.
What part of speech is vermigrade?
Vermigrade is an adjective.

Words near vermigrade in the dictionary

  1. vermifugal
  2. vermifuge
  3. vermifuges
  4. vermifugous
  5. vermigerous
  6. vermigrade
  7. vermil
  8. vermile
  9. vermileonid
  10. vermileonids
  11. vermilion

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