Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun wiggler

3 senses of wiggler

Sense 1
wiggler, wriggler, squirmer -- (one who can't stay still (especially a child); "the toddler was a real wiggler on plane trips")
       => person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul -- (a human being; "there was too much for one person to do")

Sense 2
wiggler, wriggler -- (larva of a mosquito)
       => larva -- (the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose)

Sense 3
earthworm, angleworm, fishworm, fishing worm, wiggler, nightwalker, nightcrawler, crawler, dew worm, red worm -- (terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers)
       => oligochaete, oligochaete worm -- (hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body)

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