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  • English Word Vermetus Definition Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Vermetus and allied genera, of the family Vermetidae. Their shells are regularly spiral when young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube.
  • English Word Vermicelli Definition The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni.
  • English Word Vermicide Definition A medicine which destroys intestinal worms; a worm killer.
  • English Word Vermicious Definition Of or pertaining to worms; wormy.
  • English Word Vermicular Definition 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.
  • English Word Vermiculate 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.
  • English Word Vermiculate Definition 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.
  • English Word Vermiculate Definition Crawling or creeping like a worm; hence, insinuating; sophistical.
  • English Word Vermiculated Definition of Vermiculate
  • English Word Vermiculated Definition Made or marked with irregular wavy lines or impressions; vermiculate.
  • English Word Vermiculating Definition of Vermiculate
  • English Word Vermiculation Definition The act or operation of moving in the manner of a worm; continuation of motion from one part to another; as, the vermiculation, or peristaltic motion, of the intestines.
  • English Word Vermiculation Definition The act of vermiculating, or forming or inlaying so as to resemble the motion, track, or work of a worm.
  • English Word Vermiculation Definition Penetration by worms; the state of being wormeaten.
  • English Word Vermiculation Definition A very fine wavy crosswise color marking, or a patch of such markings, as on the feathers of birds.
  • English Word Vermicule Definition A small worm or insect larva; also, a wormlike body.
  • English Word Vermiculite Definition A group of minerals having, a micaceous structure. They are hydrous silicates, derived generally from the alteration of some kind of mica. So called because the scales, when heated, open out into wormlike forms.
  • English Word Vermiculose Definition Alt. of Vermiculous
  • English Word Vermiculous Definition Containing, or full of, worms; resembling worms.
  • English Word Vermiform Definition Resembling a worm in form or motions; vermicular; as, the vermiform process of the cerebellum.
  • English Word Vermiformia Definition A tribe of worms including Phoronis. See Phoronis.
  • English Word Vermifugal Definition Tending to prevent, destroy, or expel, worms or vermin; anthelmintic.
  • English Word Vermifuge Definition A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.
  • English Word Vermil Definition See Vermeil.
  • English Word Vermilinguia Definition A tribe of edentates comprising the South American ant-eaters. The tongue is long, slender, exsertile, and very flexible, whence the name.
  • English Word Vermilinguia Definition A tribe of Old World lizards which comprises the chameleon. They have long, flexible tongues.
  • English Word Vermilion Definition A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc.
  • English Word Vermilion Definition Hence, a red color like the pigment; a lively and brilliant red; as, cheeks of vermilion.
  • English Word Vermilion Definition To color with vermilion, or as if with vermilion; to dye red; to cover with a delicate red.
  • English Word Vermily Definition Vermeil.