Definition of "worm-shaped" [worm•-shaped]

• Shaped like a worm; �hick and almost cylindrical, but variously curved or bent. (adjective)

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• "These brown worm-shaped organisms account for four out of every ten dollars earned by rural Tibetans and provide a bigger boost for the economy than the combined revenue from manufacturing and mining Daniel Winkler, “Yartsa Gunbu [Cordyceps sinensis] and the Fungal Commodification of the Rural Economy in Tibet AR,” Economic Botany 62, 3 [2008]: 291–305."
• "In parts of the Romagna, passatelli the worm-shaped pasta made with bread crumbs were an Easter dish."
• "The animals are up to 4 cm long, vermiform worm-shaped, and covered by locomotory cilia."