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writher en · NOUN

Etymology

From writhe + -er.

Meanings

  1. One who writhes.
    • Then, almost at once, imagination begins to people this totally unfamiliar world with highly undesirable denizens — jaguars and other snarling cats, the bushmaster, the fer-de-lance, and other venomous writhers, and poisonous insects […] 1961, Thomas Harper Goodspeed, Plant Hunters in the Andes, page 335:

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