vermigrade
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Coined by Nobel-winning Irish writer Samuel Beckett.
Adjective[edit]
vermigrade (not comparable)
- wriggling like a worm
- 1973, Barry N. Schwartz, Human Connection and the New Media, page 170:
- 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.