The animals are up to 4 cm long, vermiform worm-shaped, and covered by locomotory cilia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panda's Thumb: November 2006 Archives] Reference

Her dorsal spine lashes; the lure at its end, a glowing worm-shaped thing, luminesces furiously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

In the middle picture, the beige worm-shaped area is the Gambia- it's just the 15 km above and the 15 km below the gambian river.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

A sixth contained a very long, much decayed, worm-shaped animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insectivorous Plants] Reference

Fossil: Teredo Petrified Wood (Teredo was a worm-shaped mollusk) - and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [MSDN Blogs] Reference

The pupil of the eye is emerald green; the rest of it is blue, with a white worm-shaped substance on the outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter the Whaler] Reference

It was very well cooked, but Mrs. Fisher had never cared for maccaroni, especially not this long worm-shaped variety.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enchanted April] Reference

It was very well cooked, but Mrs. Fisher had never cared for maccaroni, especially not this long, worm-shaped variety.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enchanted April] Reference

Some little worm-shaped masses of clear jelly containing specks are fastened to the stick: eggs of a small snail-like shell-fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Professor at the Breakfast-Table] Reference

It appears to be a tiny worm attached to the organ; and this is where it's scientific term, Vermiform (or "worm-shaped") appendix, originates from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serendip's Exchange] Reference

The Vermiform Process or Appendix (processus vermiformis) (Fig. 1073) is a long, narrow, worm-shaped tube, which starts from what was originally the apex of the cecum, and may pass in one of several directions: upward behind the cecum; to the left behind the ileum and mesentery; or downward into the lesser pelvis.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 2h. The Large Intestine] Reference

Hemichordata) belong to the phylum of worm-shaped marine deuterostome animals, generally considered the sister group of the echinoderms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ultimi bookmark postati su Segnalo] Reference

The butterfly is the caterpillar in a gaudy cloak; stripped of which, there lies the impostor's long spindle of a body, pretty much worm-shaped as before. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confidence-Man] Reference

(6) Some few bladders on the plant which I received from Kew were examined; and in one, there was a worm-shaped animal very little decayed, with a distinct remnant of a similar one greatly decayed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insectivorous Plants] Reference

Ate at a completely nondescript trattoria in Santa Margherita — name was Baicin — and the food was all I’d hoped for: the classic trofie, fresh worm-shaped excuse me, but it’s true pasta, with pesto of course, and the often included green beans and potatoes; a fresh, super-tasty minestrone — vegetable broth, with borlottis, celery, carrots, fresh pasta, and onion, also topped with pesto.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I Ate Last Night Department: Classic Trattoria Fare - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference