1. a person or animal that wriggles or moves with twisting motions
2. the larva of a mosquito that moves with a wriggling motion in water
Usage: biology

Examples

• The toddler was such a wriggler that it was hard to change his diaper.
• She couldn’t hold the puppy still because it was a real wriggler.
• The pond was full of wrigglers swimming near the surface.
• Mosquito wrigglers can be controlled by removing standing water.
• The little wriggler kept escaping from his mother’s arms.
• Scientists studied the wrigglers to understand mosquito development.