Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the shape of a worm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wormlike in form: shaped like a worm; vermicular.
- Related to a worm in structure; allied or belonging to the Vermes; vermian; helminthic; annuloid or annulose.
- Specifically, in entomology: Noting any maggot or maggot like larva, as those of most Hymenoptera and Diptera. Noting certain worm-like polyphagous larvæ;, with only rudimentary antennæ, and apodous or with very short legs like tubercles, as those of most weevils and longicorns.
- The vermis of the cerebellum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling a worm in form or motions; vermicular.
- adjective (Anat.) a slender blind process of the cæcum in man and some other animals; -- called also
vermiform appendage , andvermiform process . Small solid bodies, such as grape seeds or cherry stones, sometimes lodge in it, causing serious, or even fatal, inflammation. SeeIllust. underDigestion .
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- adjective In the shape of a
worm .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling a worm; long and thin and cylindrical
Etymologies
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Examples
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With respect to the alimentary canal, I have met with an account of only a single rudiment, namely the vermiform appendage of the caecum.
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The skin of fruit should never be eaten, nor should the stones, pips, or seeds be swallowed, as there is a danger of their accumulating in a small pouch of the bowel known as the vermiform appendix.
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The appendix is also called the vermiform appendix because of its wormlike (vermiform) shape.
appendix 2002
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The skin of fruit should never be eaten, nor should the stones, pips, or seeds be swallowed, as there is a danger of their accumulating in a small pouch of the bowel known as the vermiform appendix.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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Also, the vermiform constellation Draco, which traditionally occupies the polar position in the heavens of the northern hemisphere, encircles the center of a late quattrocento tapestry depicting the heavens as a wheel of fortune and an enormous astrolabe.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Continue reading “Darwin and the vermiform appendix”.
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The Colorado River is our great resource and unless we conserve it and get the maximum benefit from it, we can depend upon becoming a sort of vermiform appendix to Los Angeles, instead of becoming one of the great empire states of this nation.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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The Colorado River is our great resource and unless we conserve it and get the maximum benefit from it, we can depend upon becoming a sort of vermiform appendix to Los Angeles, instead of becoming one of the great empire states of this nation.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Darwin and the vermiform appendix is the next entry in this blog.
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