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Meanings of vermicular in English

Decorated with wormlike tracery or markings.

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        1
        This may readily be seen in the muscular action of the intestines, called vermicular motion.
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        2
        This consists of a dry, vermicular collection of noodles sloshed into a bowl, accompanied by a cream wafer.
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        3
        It is this vermicular insignificance of the gossip that makes his detection so difficult, and gives him his security.
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        4
        That's the very feature of it that seems to me most dreadful; the vermicular aspect; the massed uprising; the massed death.
        O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
        5
        It was a notable object in the dim little church, having a wooden canopy supported on four slim oak pillars with vermicular moulding.
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