vermis
noun
the median lobe or division of the cerebellum.
vermes
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pluralof vermis.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Hence the difficulties which have embarrassed the naturalists, who adopt the Linnæan classification, in their endeavours to discover determinate characters of distinction between the vermes and the insecta.
From Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There were obtained at the same time, besides a few specimens of Idothea Sabinei, sponges and bryozoa in great abundance, and small mussels, crustacea, vermes, &c.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
They belong to the Molluscoida of Huxley, a lower division of the great family of the Mollusca; but they have recently been placed by some naturalists among the vermes or worms.
From Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson
But they soon creep out again, in order, as if by agreement, to fly out to sea and search for their food, which consists of crustacea and vermes.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
Marine vermes, the mollusca, testacea, lithophytes, and zoophytes, together with fishes and sea-birds, feed beneath this floating meadow.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
