wormlet
nounEtymology From worm + -let.
1
A small worm.
- […] her mother was provident, stingy; in kitchen drawers Puttermesser still discovered folded squares of used ancient waxed paper, million-creased into whiteness, cheese-smelling, nesting small unidentifiable wormlets […]1997, Cynthia Ozick, The Puttermesser Papers, New York: Knopf, page 3:
- Synonyms
- wormling