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What does wormlike mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word wormlike? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a worm.
  2. (chemistry) Having a smoothly curved form when heated.
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These small, wormlike animals move through the water with a wriggling motion.
These wormlike creatures have suckers on either end that help them cling to plants so they are not swept away by wind or waves.
The larva of other insects, such as beetles, butterflies, and wasps, is a grub or caterpillar, a wormlike creature not even remotely resembling the adult.
Ocelli appear to be primitive types of insect eye which are, perhaps, an inheritance from a wormlike ancestor.
There the worm clings to the gills while it metamorphoses into a plump, sinusoidal, wormlike body, with a coiled mass of egg strings at the rear.
The wormlike thread of men wound round picquet after picquet, and throttled the sentries on the glacis, and at the gate.

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