A caterpillar of a geometrid moth, which moves forward by arching and straightening its body; a looper.
Example sentencesExamples
Eventually he was reduced to scooting along like an inchworm.
Visually, it's kind of like an inchworm… the back feet move towards the front, then the front feet move away from the back.
Unlike inchworms, we humans see the value of standardized measures: They foster reliable replication of a phrase and they make for easy togetherness.
I imagined little creatures - frogs, crickets, and inchworms - busying themselves.
Experiments show that matchstick-size slivers of hydrogel, the type of material used for soft contact lenses, can ooze along like snails, slither like snakes, and creep ahead like inchworms.
Definition of inchworm in US English:
inchworm
nounˈɪn(t)ʃwərmˈin(t)SHwərm
North American
A caterpillar of a geometrid moth, which moves forward by arching and straightening its body.
British term looper
Example sentencesExamples
Visually, it's kind of like an inchworm… the back feet move towards the front, then the front feet move away from the back.
Unlike inchworms, we humans see the value of standardized measures: They foster reliable replication of a phrase and they make for easy togetherness.
Experiments show that matchstick-size slivers of hydrogel, the type of material used for soft contact lenses, can ooze along like snails, slither like snakes, and creep ahead like inchworms.
I imagined little creatures - frogs, crickets, and inchworms - busying themselves.
Eventually he was reduced to scooting along like an inchworm.