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VERMICULATED
vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated
(adjective) decorated with wormlike tracery or markings; “vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
vermiculated
simple past tense and past participle of vermiculate
Adjective
vermiculated (comparative more vermiculated, superlative most vermiculated)
Decorated with lines like worm tracks.
Source: Wiktionary
Ver*mic"u*la`ted, a.
Definition: Made or marked with irregular wavy lines or impressions; vermiculate. Vermiculated work, or Vermicular work (Arch.), rustic work so wrought as to have the appearance of convoluted worms, or of having been eaten into by, or covered with tracks of, worms. Gwilt.
VERMICULATE
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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