Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Made or marked with irregular wavy lines or impressions; vermiculate.
- adjective (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.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
vermiculate . - adjective
Decorated with lines likeworm tracks.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective decorated with wormlike tracery or markings
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Examples
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You'll need a black belt in jargon to describe some of these features – is that a mix of banded and vermiculated rustication on those corbelled columnar shafts?
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All birds, in this way, are vermiculated; and we are not and can never be.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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Presumably, the specific name refers to the vermiculated shell.
A snail of cities: Eobania vermiculata AYDIN 2008
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Presumably, the specific name refers to the vermiculated shell.
Archive 2008-10-01 AYDIN 2008
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Numberless irregular holes, capriciously bored or eaten out by the inclemency of the weather, gave an appearance of the vermiculated stonework of French architecture to the arch and the side walls of this entrance, which bore some resemblance to the gateway of a jail.
Eug�nie Grandet 2007
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Elsewhere it looked flexuous, here it looked vermiculated and lumpy, and her marine experiences suggested to her in a moment that two currents met and caused a turmoil at this place.
A Changed Man 2006
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A similarly peculiar silvery char without vermiculated markings was discovered in White Pine Lake and Whirligig Lake in northeastern Ontario, Canada.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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A similarly peculiar silvery char without vermiculated markings was discovered in White Pine Lake and Whirligig Lake in northeastern Ontario, Canada.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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A similarly peculiar silvery char without vermiculated markings was discovered in White Pine Lake and Whirligig Lake in northeastern Ontario, Canada.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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A similarly peculiar silvery char without vermiculated markings was discovered in White Pine Lake and Whirligig Lake in northeastern Ontario, Canada.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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