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Word: inchworm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...feel like an inchworm. Is that a dog down there? Oh my God, it's a furry dog! They shouldn't allow this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Philadelphia: Superdogs | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

Ranging from the carefree chirit, a long-bodied squirrel that moves by hunching its body inchworm-style, to the flooer, whose large pinkish ears mimic a flower to attract edible bees, Dixon's future zoo may suggest an imagination gone wild. But he is talking about a period 50 million years from now. And nature, the great experimenter, has already created creatures just as outrageous. -By Peter Stoler

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Once and Future Zoo | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

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