vermicular
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Adjective (1)
- decorated with wormlike tracery or markings“vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework”Synonyms: vermiculatevermiculatedOpposite plainSimilar fancy
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ver·mic′u·lar adjective
Origin: L. vermiculus a little worm, dim. of vermis a worm: cf. F. vermiculaire. See Vermicelli.
Of or pertaining to a worm or worms; resembling a worm; shaped like a worm; especially, resembling the motion or track of a worm; as, the vermicular, or peristaltic, motion of the intestines. See Peristaltic. “A twisted form vermicular.” William Cowper
Vermicular work. See under Vermiculated.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54