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Meanings of vermicular in English

Decorated with wormlike tracery or markings.

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        On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming.
        The road
        2
        What a breeding nest of vermiculate cares and pains was this human heart of ours!
        Thomas Wingfold, Curate V2
        3
        My life seemed only a vermiculate one, a crawling about of half-thoughts-half-feelings through the corpse of a decaying existence.
        Wilfrid Cumbermede
        4
        Religion itself in the hearts of the unreal, is a dead thing; what seems life in it, is the vermiculate life of a corpse.
        The Hope of the Gospel
        5
        In spirits black, yellow spotted and varied, beneath gray, vermiculated with blackish; tail black-ringed.
        Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Weste...
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        Young dark-coloured, with vermiculated marks on the chin, chest, and abdomen.
        Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Weste...
        2
        In spirits black, yellow spotted and varied, beneath gray, vermiculated with blackish; tail black-ringed.
        Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Weste...
        3
        This noble structure is of brick, with vermiculated stone-work at the angles and on the casings of the doors and windows.
        An Historical Mystery (The Gondreville Mystery)
        Usage of vermicular in English
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        This may readily be seen in the muscular action of the intestines, called vermicular motion.
        A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools
        2
        This consists of a dry, vermicular collection of noodles sloshed into a bowl, accompanied by a cream wafer.
        Full Circle
        3
        It is this vermicular insignificance of the gossip that makes his detection so difficult, and gives him his security.
        Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
        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
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        It was a notable object in the dim little church, having a wooden canopy supported on four slim oak pillars with vermicular moulding.
        Demos
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        Vermicular through the time