Found 3 hits - Term: vermiculate, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
vermiculate \vermic"ulate\, 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.
1913 webster
2. crawling or creeping like a worm; hence, insinuating;
sophistical. "vermiculate questions." --bacon.
"vermiculate logic." --r. choate.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
vermiculate \vermic"ulate\, v. t. imp. p. p.
vermiculated; p. pr. vb. n. vermiculating. 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.
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.
1913 webster
see also:
vermiculated vermiculating vermicular
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
vermiculate
adj 1: eaten or as if eaten by worms syn: worm-eaten, wormy
2: decorated with wormlike tracery or markings; "vermicular or
vermiculated stonework" syn: vermicular, vermiculated
v : decorate with wavy or winding lines
see also:
worm-eaten wormy vermicular vermiculated
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