Sentence examples for inchworm from inspiring English sources

In amphipods the first four pairs are pointed forward and the last three backward, an adaptation for perching, clinging, climbing in "inchworm" fashion, or jumping.

The larvae of geometrid moths are called by a variety of common names, including inchworm, cankerworm, looper, and measuring worm.

Locomotion in the leech may be compared, in part, to that of the inchworm (immature members of the moth family Geometridae); the anterior and posterior suckers serve as points of contact.

The title of their collected correspondence is taken from Lowell's late poem about that painstaking practice: Have you seen an inchworm crawl on a leaf, cling to the very end, revolve in air, feeling for something to reach to something?

PHILIPPA KAYE COMPANY The witty, science-inspired choreographer presents "Landing Strip," a new solo that finds humor by juxtaposing human and bird flight, and "Zoo Parts," a series of animal courtship dances that's also a preview of the water buffalo, baboon, and inchworm representations Kaye will set loose in the Prospect Park Zoo in July.

But where Baker, his creator, is fluent and in control, Chowder is blocked and scattered; Baker is meticulously constructing a novel, while Chowder can't even lay down a five-line poem about an inchworm on his pant leg, let alone forty coherent pages on poetic theory.

Touching on inchworms and electrons, on Darwinism and Taoism and the "revolutionary anarchist pamphleteer Peter Kropotkin," the piece is deadly serious and seriously alive.

The cast includes the downtown Obie-winning actor and dancer Okwui Okpokwasili, Tony Torn, and the dancer Philippa Kaye, whose recent work with her dance troupe includes last year's "Landing Strip," a solo juxtaposing human and bird flight, and "Zoo Parts," an interpretation of the courtship dances of water buffalo, inchworms, and baboons.

He likes inchworms best.

With their backs against one rock and feet against the other, they wiggled up like inchworms.

By the end of the morning expedition, we counted silversides, killifish, amphipods (the roly-polies of the sea), tiny Atlantic herring, fairy shrimp, mud snails, common periwinkles, a hermit crab, pipe fish (related to seahorses, but elongated like inchworms) and my European green crab, among others.