worm
noun
any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids.
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And suppose the impossible, suppose the worm turns in some fit of wormish desperation.
From Ewing\'s Lady by Harry Leon Wilson