vermiculate
IPA: vɝmˈɪkjʌɫʌt
verb
- To decorate with lines resembling the tracks of worms.
adjective
- Like a worm; resembling a worm.
- Vermiculated.
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Examples of "vermiculate" in Sentences
- Underparts are buff and also vermiculated.
- The wings are black, vermiculated with white.
- The skin atrophy was referred to as vermiculate atrophoderma.
- The underside is barred and vermiculated, including the buffy chest.
- In the female and young birds the upperparts are brown and vermiculated.
- On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming.
- Max Baucus's Medicare coverage for people exposed to asbestos in a vermiculate mine in Libby, Montana;
- MacMurrough leant at his shoulder to over-read, piecing together with difficulty the vermiculate letters.
- Religion itself in the hearts of the unreal, is a dead thing; what seems life in it, is the vermiculate life of a corpse.
- My life seemed only a vermiculate one, a crawling about of half-thoughts-half-feelings through the corpse of a decaying existence.
- That love should be capable of ending in such vermiculate results as too often appear, is no more against the loveliness of the divine idea, than that the forms of man and woman, the spirit gone from them, should degenerate to such things as may not be looked upon.
- Surely, like as many substances in nature which are solid do putrefy and corrupt into worms; — so it is the property of good and sound knowledge to putrefy and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness and life of spirit, but no soundness of matter or goodness of quality.
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