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VERMICULATE
vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated
(adjective) decorated with wormlike tracery or markings; “vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework”
vermiculate, worm-eaten, wormy
(adjective) infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms
vermiculate
(verb) decorate with wavy or winding lines
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
vermiculate (third-person singular simple present vermiculates, present participle vermiculating, simple past and past participle vermiculated)
To decorate with lines resembling the tracks of worms.
Adjective
vermiculate (comparative more vermiculate, superlative most vermiculate)
Like a worm; resembling a worm.
Vermiculated.
Source: Wiktionary
Ver*mic"u*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vermiculated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vermiculating.] Etym: [L. vermiculatus inlaid so as to resemble the tracks of worms, p. p. of vermiculari to be full of worms, vermiculus a little worm. See Vermicular.]
Definition: To form or work, as by inlaying, with irregular lines or impressions resembling the tracks of worms, or appearing as if formed by the motion of worms.
Ver*mic"u*late, a.
1. Wormlike in shape; covered with wormlike elevations; marked with irregular fine lines of color, or with irregular wavy impressed lines like worm tracks; as, a vermiculate nut.
2. Crawling or creeping like a worm; hence, insinuating; sophistical. "Vermiculate questions." Bacon. "Vermiculate logic." R. Choate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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