| 释义 |
crawly
adjective
informaluk /ˈkrɔː.li/ us /ˈkrɑː.li/
A crawly insect or other animal moves along on its legs or body close to the ground:
Every time I turned a stone over, something nasty, black, and crawly crept out.
Beneath one fallen tree, investigators found beetles and a mass of crawly worms.
Related word
crawl
Avoid pesticides, which kill not only hedgehogs but their crawly food sources, too.
There was a compost heap of crawly worms at the bottom of the garden.
The horror of it was that the creeping, crawly thing made no sound - only crawled!
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Moving on your hands and legs or on your stomach
clamber
claw
claw your way (somewhere)idiom
crawl
four
grovel
on all foursidiom
pull
scramble
shimmy
slither
slithery
wriggle
|