See Also: crawl 1, verb(dictionary)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
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unequal cleavage (medicine) and crawl 1, verb (oh)


unequal cleavage (medicine)


unequal cleavage
Cleavage producing blastomeres of different sizes at the two poles.


crawl 1, verb (oh)




[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old Norse; Origin: krafla]
to move along on your hands and knees with your body close to the ground
crawl along/across etc
::The baby crawled across the floor.
if an insect crawls, it moves using its legs
crawl over/up etc
::There's a bug crawling up your leg.
crawl into/out of bed
to get into or out of bed slowly because you are very tired
::We crawled into bed at 2 am.
if a vehicle crawls, it moves forward very slowly
crawl by/along etc
::The traffic was crawling along.
BrE informal to be too pleasant or helpful to someone in authority, especially because you want them to help you - used in order to show disapproval
crawl to
::She's always crawling to the boss.
be crawling with sth
to be completely covered with insects, people etc
::The floor was crawling with ants.
::The whole place was crawling with cops.
crawl the Net/web
if a computer program crawls the Net, it quickly searches the Internet to find the particular information you need
-see also spider spider
::robots that crawl the net searching out e-mail addresses for junk mailing