vermigrade

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. wriggling like a worm not-comparable
    — 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.

词源

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