vermicular
Americanadjective
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of, relating to, or done by worms.
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consisting of or characterized by sinuous or wavy outlines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm.
adjective
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resembling the form, markings, motion, or tracks of worms
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of or relating to worms or wormlike animals
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Etymology
Origin of vermicular
1645–55; < Medieval Latin vermiculāris, equivalent to Latin vermicul ( us ) vermicule + -āris -ar 1
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His speech was bumbling, his gait "vermicular," his appearance unfetching.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the skin immediately adjacent to them being pressed with the finger nails, these bits of coagulated lymph will come from it in a vermicular form.
From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs
It facilitates the movements of the intestines upon each other during their vermicular, or worm-like action.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter
A peculiar vermicular movement, beginning at his feet and ending at his head, was the precursor of a slow, vacant guffaw that expressed the most intense delight of which he was capable.
From The Ape, the Idiot & Other People by W. C. Morrow
Under the microscope, this proved an Oscillatoria, which I could not identify with any of the described species in Harvey's Phytologia: the filaments creeping and twining with the peculiar vermicular movements of the genus.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse
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