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
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of vermicular
1645–55; < Medieval Latin vermiculāris, equivalent to Latin vermicul ( us ) vermicule + -āris -ar 1
Example Sentences
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His speech was bumbling, his gait "vermicular," his appearance unfetching.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a notable object in the dim little church, having a wooden canopy supported on four slim oak pillars with vermicular moulding.
From Demos by George Gissing
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
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
The worm of workers passes three days in the egg, five in the vermicular state, and then the bees close up its cell with a wax covering.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
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