grub-like

There, extracted grub-like and blinking from my bedroom and those bulging plywood shelves, I began the forced invention of a less Lovecraftian persona – based in large part on a chance literary discovery a year or so before.

William Gibson biography 2003

With grubs and grub-like creatures the time is usually three weeks, and in the oviparous insects as a rule four.

The History of Animals 2002

From these eggs grub-like larvae hatch which bore into the terminal and the leaf bases, greatly dwarfing the terminal growth.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947

In some cases the grubs may be able to produce light though as a rule the luminous grub-like creature or glow-worm is a wingless adult firefly.

An Elementary Study of Insects Leonard Haseman

A peculiarity of this reptile is the fleshy filament, grub-like in appearance, which it has in its mouth and which acts as a bait, attracting fish within the reach of its powerful jaws.

Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot Alan Douglas

In a small glass cage set upon a pedestal of stone were several writhing, grub-like things that palpitated disgustingly.

The Cosmic Engineer Simak, Clifford D. 1950

It is not surprising, therefore, that many beetles, even when adult, should live as their larvae do; since the acquirement of complete metamorphosis they have become modified towards the larval condition, and an extreme case of such modification is afforded by the wingless grub-like female Glow-worm (Lampyris).

The Life-Story of Insects 1902

What is the cause that determines that one individual in a brood of Stylops, for example (Fig. 184, male; Fig. 185, grub-like female in the body of its host), shall be but a grub, living as a parasite in the body of its host, while its fellow shall be winged and as free in its actions as the most highly organized insect?

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

First he took out a quantity of cells with nothing in them but grub-like things -- the cradles of the young bees they were.

Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood George MacDonald 1864

These grub-like lives, undignified even by passion, -- these life-long quenchings of the spark divine. -- why dost Thou suffer them?

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I Margaret Fuller 1830