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inchworm

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inch=worm

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun inchworm has 1 sense

inchworm(n = noun.animal) looper, measuring worm - small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae; Array

is a kind of caterpillar

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CIDE DICTIONARY

inchworm, n.

The larva of any geometrid moth. It progresses forward by first bringing the rear end of the body forward, forming a loop, then moving the front part of the body; called also measuring worm, measuringworm, spanner, and looper. See Geometrid. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

inchworm, n. = measuring-worm (see MEASURE).

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