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Meanings of earthworm in English
Suborder of tube-shaped, segmented annelids.
Related terms
Terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers.
Synonyms
Examples for "crawler"
Examples for "crawler"
1
The object must have somehow sensed and responded to the crawler's presence.
2
Stepping into the rear of the crawler, she eyed the tools available.
3
I can see from telemetry that the crawler is already beyond recall.
4
Each consisted of a tracked snow-crawler drawing a few sledges behind it.
5
She indicates the ground-crawler and idly suggests they break their journey now.
1
April squirmed like a giant nightcrawler on the end of a fishing hook.
2
They'd sit at the front door with a limp tail between two teeth, hanging like a drowned nightcrawler.
3
Eadric and I were glowering at each other when the witch returned with a freshly unearthed nightcrawler in her hand.
4
It's only a short hop from there to the world of Nightcrawler.
5
This is the world Jake Gyllenhaal inhabits in the lurid new satire Nightcrawler.
1
Be sure you don't let the light get to it, angleworm!
2
Each hair is about the thickness of a large angleworm.
3
He didn't need to wait-asthe birds did-until an angleworm stuck his head above ground.
4
He hasn't got the backbone of an angleworm.
5
If I'd had the guts of an angleworm I could have made you give it up.
1
Call him Ishmael, call him Isaac, call him Israel, this god-wrestling nightwalker who abandoned Lit.
2
Dillon is a longtime nightwalker, and he's the one person here who can really help you.
3
She was a nightwalker.
4
This moody star of upcoming nightwalker flick Twilight can lend her experience with things that go bump in the night to Burton's twisted tale.
5
Fie upon you, nightwalker!...
1
Within another couple of weeks, he was a champion ear-wiggler.
2
We may have to drive-no ,asI'm a living, wiggler-hauntedhuman being, here's firm bottom.
3
You call him a "wiggler" when you see him swimming about in a puddle.
4
Usually, this happens after the pinkie-wiggler has been intimate with the pinkie-wigglee and their, ahem, coupling ended badly.
5
The week before my arrest, I'd busted a junkie name of Wiggler Coonts.
1
Captain Trigger hasn't got the backbone of a fishworm.
2
If you are, I got some fishworm oil that's jest the thing to limber up yer joints.
3
Now if you are talking about cutworms or fishworms, father is right.
4
There he was talking away to us fishworms just as cordially as if he enjoyed it.
5
Take fishworms mashed up with old bacon oil, and tie on the wound, which is the surest and safest cure.
1
His tongue lolled from his mouth like a swollen red worm, his eyes open wide.
2
The red worm was on the bank.
3
You must fish for him with a small red worm; and if you bait the ground with earth, it is excellent.
4
Probably they would have taken a small red worm, pitched into the ripple of a rise; but we did not try that.
5
Then he took to small red worm and angled forth a dish of fat gudgeon, that would have put a Seine fisher in raptures.
1
He usually says I make Medusa's snakes look like a pot of fishing worms.
2
We had big times hunting fishing worms for bait.
3
Rub fishing worms on the ground makes them tougher so you can put them on the hook.
4
Antiseptic, with those fishing worms and the hen and the pet toad and the June bugs in his bed!
1
And Rondeletius says, he has seen Eels cling together like dew -worms.
Usage of earthworm in English
1
And then reflect upon the motor-scorcher and the earthworm and the blow-fly.
2
Scientists have unearthed an unexpected contributor to global climate change, the earthworm.
3
The nitrification-denitrification process was identified with and without the presence of earthworm.
4
This lecture illustrated the amazing churning effect of the earthworm on soil.
5
It looks like a ten-foot earthworm with a terrific case of indigestion.
6
You will find that he is not at all like the earthworm.
7
You are walking barefoot on concrete and you step on an earthworm.
8
Howard especially denigrated sulfate of ammonia and single superphosphate as earthworm poisons.
9
The richness of the soil had been revealed when they dug the earthworm.
10
The common earthworm is the most unfortunate variety of the species.
11
Rodale and Howard loudly and repeatedly contended that chemical fertilizers decimate earthworm populations.
12
Wandering along the street, she came upon a little squirming earthworm.
13
And if an earthworm has consciousness, could a protozoan have consciousness?
14
Gwendolen took no notice of them and turned to the earthworm.
15
I'm designing a crawl-through for HorrorZone: you're an earthworm crawling underneath a graveyard.
16
If it's a giant earthworm, why is it hard to find?
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