Used in a Sentence

earthworm

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for earthworm.

Editorial note

The actual second-to-second experience of being an earthworm is not accessible as training data to an LLM.

Examples13
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A worm that lives in the ground.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of earthworm gathered in one view.

noun

A worm that lives in the ground.

noun

A worm of the family Lumbricidae, or, more generally, of the suborder Lumbricina.

noun

(figurative) A contemptible person; a groveller.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for earthworm.

Example sentences

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The actual second-to-second experience of being an earthworm is not accessible as training data to an LLM.

2

Nobody is going to sit here and try to argue that an earthworm is sapient, at least not without being a deliberate troll.

3

It carries on nicely from all the gorgeous 2D work on games like Aladdin or Earthworm Jim.

4

North America did not have an extensive earthworm ecology like Eurasia even though they had some worms.

5

Unless you foresee some kind of alien invasion or earthworm uprising, nothing other than humans will ever access your content.

6

The directional bristles for anchoring to dirt (more noticeable on the larger earthworm species) are the remnants of polychaete parapodia.

7

An earthworm can't suddenly realize that all its day-to-day routines exist in a tangible sense and make an effort to change those.

8

Sad to realize the studio behind Messiah [0] and Earthworm Jim [1] has ended up specializing in shoveling out licensed trash [2][3].

9

They look like earthworm that like to live near ice and eat algae.

10

He’s not at all like an earthworm or an insect in that regard.

11

They've worked on mostly licensed games, and I don't think Shiny owned the Earthworm Jim IP when the merger happened.

12

An earthworm is highly specialized for what it does and exists in a completely different context - I doubt an LLM would be successful guiding a robotic earthworm around since all it knows about earthworms is what researchers have observed and documented.

Quote examples

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The word "believing" doesn't imply choice anymore, for example you can say an earthworm believes all big animals are the same just because that's how it thinks, not because it made a choice to think that way.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use earthworm in a sentence?

The actual second-to-second experience of being an earthworm is not accessible as training data to an LLM.

What does earthworm mean?

A worm that lives in the ground.

What part of speech is earthworm?

earthworm is commonly used as noun.