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What does wormlike mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word wormlike? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a worm.
  2. (chemistry) Having a smoothly curved form when heated.
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These small, wormlike animals move through the water with a wriggling motion.
The larva of other insects, such as beetles, butterflies, and wasps, is a grub or caterpillar, a wormlike creature not even remotely resembling the adult.
It usually remains motionless, lying on its side, or else displays its drowsy activity merely by feeble, wormlike movements.
The eggs generally hatch in a few days, and a minute, white, wormlike larva emerges.
These wormlike creatures have suckers on either end that help them cling to plants so they are not swept away by wind or waves.
On opening, the colon revealed numerous wormlike or villiform polyps covering almost the entire segment of the sigmoid colon.

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