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  • n  small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae

  • Then, in the darkness, I grab a rope and inchworm 50 feet up the almond tree she's been sleeping in for more than two weeks.
  • Then, in the darkness, I grab a rope and inchworm 50 feet up the almond tree she's been sleeping in for more than two weeks.
  • A House liberal groans helplessly: "I feel like an inchworm at the bottom of the well.
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  • Odd new cave-dwelling 'shrimp' discovered off California
    A translucent underwater cave dweller that looks like a skeleton and travels like an inchworm is the newest member of California's array of marine life.
    Nov. 21, 2013 - NBC NEWS
  • New Cave-Dwelling 'Shrimp' Discovered in California
    A translucent underwater cave dweller that looks like a skeleton and travels like an inchworm is the newest member of California's array of marine life. Scientists found a new species of skeleton shrimp — a group of tiny crustaceans that are actually caprellid amphipods, not shrimp — in vials collected from a small cave offshore of Southern California's Catalina Island. The two vials, one ...
    Nov. 20, 2013 - LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News

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