writher
nounEtymology From writhe + -er.
1
One who writhes.
- Then, almost at once, imagination begins to people this totally unfamiliar world with highly undesirable denizens — jaguars and other snarling cats, the bushmaster, the fer-de-lance, and other venomous writhers, and poisonous insects […]1961, Thomas Harper Goodspeed, Plant Hunters in the Andes, page 335: