vermicularadj.n.

Brit.

/vəːˈmɪkjᵿlə/,

/vəˈmɪkjᵿlə/, U.S.

/vərˈmɪkjələr/

Etymology: < medieval Latin vermiculāris, < Latin vermiculus : see vermicule n. So French vermiculaire (Paré), Spanish vermicular, Portuguese vermicular, Italian vermicolare.

A. adj.

1. Physiology.

†a. ? Full of vermicules. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > infestation by noxious creatures > [adjective] > with worms

wormy1600

vermiculate1605

vermicular1655

vermiculous?1691

vermiculose1727

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [adjective] > consisting of > infested with > small worms

vermicular1655

1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick vii. iii. 159 Somtimes it [the blood] is intermitting, watery, vermicular, when the Lungs are rotten by too much moisture.

b. = peristaltic adj.Frequently from c1835.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [adjective] > motion of

vermicular1673

antiperistaltic1706

vermiculant1707

antivermicular1717

1673 Philos. Trans. 1672 (Royal Soc.) 7 5137 We instance the Vermicular motion of the veins [of plants] when exposed to the air.

1722 W. Cheselden Anat. Humane Body (ed. 2) iii. xii. 194 After this it [sc. the food] is continually mov'd by the..Vermicular Motion of the Guts.

1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. Notes 99 In such a structure it is easy to conceive how a vermicular or peristaltic motion of the vessel..must forcibly push forward its contents.

1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 9 Its [sc. the stomach's] muscular fibres are calculated to produce a constant undulatory vermicular movement.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 668/1 On the supposition that the arteries undergo an undulatory or vermicular contraction.

1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 181 This form of movement is also spoken of as the vermicular motion of the intestine.

in extended use.1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 201 Sometimes these muscles are seen working under the skin in vermicular fashion.

a. Having the sinuous shape or form characteristic of a worm; consisting of, characterized by, tortuous outlines or markings; sinuous, wavy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [adjective] > having many or winding curves

tortivous14..

anfractuous?a1425

tortuous1426

tortuea1500

snakish1532

winding1538

wormy1545

boughty1570

wriggled1572

sinuous1578

serpent-likea1586

crankled1594

serpent1597

snaky1600

flexuous1605

snaking1605

cringle-crangle1606

voluminous1611

serpenting?1614

serpentine1615

curvy1623

serpentizing1628

worming1631

lacinious1648

anguineous1656

anguine1657

anfractuose1680

twisting1683

vermicular1712

worm-like1721

flexuose1727

meandering1748

crinkum-crankum1766

serpentiform1777

serpentining1799

anguiform1800

ophite1828

tortuose1829

cranky1836

sinuose1836

serpentile1857

twisty1857

sinuated1859

vermiculatea1864

twinyc1868

tortive1880

crinkle-crankle1881

serpentinous1882

quirky1890

twistical1890

waggly1894

wriggly1901

squiggly1902

wiggly1903

contortionate1911

wig-waggy1914

curvaceous1965

1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 180 The Vermicular, or Worm-like Gum, is one of the Arabian or Senega Gums.

1754 Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 87 This second furrow was..not in a strait line, but in a vermicular direction.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 30 A generation more refin'd..made three legs four, Gave them a twisted form vermicular.

1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1816) I. xiv. 438 The vermicular shape..of the masses with which the [larval] cases are surrounded.

1860 W. F. Hook Lives Archbishops Canterbury I. i. 33 His mantle..ornamented with stripes or vermicular figures.

1875 C. D. E. Fortnum Maiolica ii. 16 Pottery of Moresque character and ornamentation with vermicular pattern in copper lustre.

b. Botany. (See quot. 1866.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > having specific shape

fingered1597

fistular1640

umbilicated1693

pectinal1705

fornicated1750

deltoid1753

linguiform1753

panduriform1753

lingulated1754

campaniform1758

augmented1760

ringed1760

securiform1760

urceolate1760

utricular1760

lingulate1763

vermicular1766

pandurated1771

navicular1793

semicolumnar1793

ungulate1802

capitellate1808

meniscoid1821

virgate1821

mitriform1824

pulvinate1824

caudated1829

vulviform1829

caudate1830

circinate1830

intruded1830

trochlear1830

scalariform1836

hippocrepiform1847

neottious1850

pulviniform1851

foxglove-shaped1856

clathroid1857

molariform1857

velate1857

strombuliform1859

calceiform1860

coralline1860

forniciform1860

urceolar1860

calceolate1861

frustulose1866

pandurate1866

intruse1870

scalar1880

meniscoidal1881

fingerposted1885

applanate1887

trochleariform1895

naviculoid1898

halonate1911

1766 Compl. Farmer at Madder The [madder] plants which are raised from layers..produce very few of those vermicular roots, which are the only valuable ones.

1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. Gloss. 641/1.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1210/2 Vermicular, worm-shaped; thick, and almost cylindrical, but bent in different places.

c. Anatomy. = vermiform adj. 3a, 3b.

ΚΠ

1843 J. J. G. Wilkinson tr. E. Swedenborg Animal Kingdom I. v. 148 The vermicular appendage is seen on one side of the fundus of the cœcum, resembling a miniature intestine.

1891 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Vermicular appendix or process.

a. Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, a worm or worms; resembling or like a worm.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [adjective]

vermicular1713

helminthic1755

wormy1801

vermiculous1813

vermiform1835

vermian1878

vermean1905

1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. viii. vi. 423 In its Vermicular-State, it is a Red-Maggot.

1720 Bibliotheca Biblica I. 152 Without the Taint of the polluted Vermicular Life.

1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 449 Several species of vermicular tubes found in the sea.

1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 114 Across the body are several annular divisions, or rather rugæ of the skin, by which the fish seems to partake of a vermicular nature.

1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 81 We may compare the erect spirit of a British Legislature with the vermicular servility of..the Senate of France.

1892 Sc. Leader 24 May 4 Vermicular patience, however, has its limits.

b. Accomplished or made by worms; performed by means of worms. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [adjective] > accomplished or performed by

vermicular1715

1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost II. i. 266 From thence came also Indian Figs, Nuts and Canes, and a vermicular kind of Web made of Silk.

1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 153 The party, which the work stood pledged to oppose through all its vermicular attacks on the glorious fabric of British Institutions.

1887 C. Hazard Mem. J. L. Diman xv. 338 The trout here disdain flies. As Lewis phrases it, vermicular fishing is what succeeds.

c. vermicular work n. (see quot. 1728 and vermiculated adj. 1c).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > representation of tracks made by worms

vermicular work1728

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Vermicular Work,..in Sculpture, a sort of Ornaments used in Rustick Work; consisting of Frets, or Knobs, cut with Points, representing, in some sort, the Tracks made by Worms.

a. Of the nature of a worm. vermicular ascaris, the threadworm, Oxyurus (Ascaris) vermicularis.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [adjective] > resembling or of the nature of

vermiform1730

vermicular1784

vermiculous1818

vermiculose1847

helminthoid1854

scolecoid1858

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Nematoda > family Ascaridae > genus Oxyuris > member of > oxyuris vermicularis (threadworms)

vermicular ascaris1784

threadworm1804

teat-worm1890

seat-worm1893

1784 W. Cowper Let. 13 Dec. (1981) II. 310 No animal of the vermicular or serpentine kind is crested, but the most formidable of all.

1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) III. 395 The Vermicular Ascarides are very common in the intestines of children.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 314 For the cure of vermicular ascarides, or maw-worms and bots, these oils have been used in the form of injections.

figurative and in extended use.1825 Examiner 307/2 Fawcett..wanted a little more personal flexibility..; he cannot, at his time of life, be sufficiently vermicular.1854 J. R. Lowell Cambr. 30 Years Ago in Prose Wks. (1890) I. 89 Refusing to molest the canker-worms..because we were all vermicular alike.1872 J. Ruskin Arrows of Chace (1880) II. 189 Criminals..are partly men, partly vermin; what is human in them you must punish—what is vermicular, abolish.

b. Comprising or consisting of worms.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [adjective] > consisting of

wormatic1665

vermicular1886

1886 H. F. Lester Under Two Fig Trees viii. 117 Their [sc. worms'] minds, like their bodies, must be glutinous; hence they stick to the thin-end theory... There is no sect of ‘bigendians’ in the vermicular fold.

5. Pathology. Of diseases: Due to, caused by, intestinal worms.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of bowels or intestines > [adjective] > infestation by parasites > caused by

verminous1666

verminose1747

vermicular1794

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 237 Hence the probable utility of fixed air in vermicular diseases.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Devil in Prose Wks. (1880) II. 400 Persons subject to vermicular and animalcular diseases.

†B. n.

= vermicule n. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [noun] > member of (worm) > small

cranet1577

wormling1605

wormlet1611

vermicle1657

nip-bud1658

vermicular?1691

vermiculus1694

vermicule1713

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > thought to be generated by decay or maggot

wormOE

matheOE

maddocka1250

mawka1425

maggot?a1475

vermicular?1691

vermiculus1694

vermicule1713

?1691 R. Clark Vermiculars Destroyed 9 A sort of invisible Worms or Vermiculars.

?1691 R. Clark Vermiculars Destroyed 11 The Putrefaction..is degenerated into innumerable Vermiculars.

Derivatives

verˈmicularly adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [adverb] > in many or winding curves

wrinklingly1387

cringle-crangle1781

crinkle-crankle1804

vermicularly1812

flexuously1846

sinuously1847

meanderingly1865

serpentiningly1871

sinuosely1874

sinuous1885

meandrically1886

1812 S. Edwards New Bot. Garden I. 84 The seeds..vermicularly wrinkled.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	vermicular
释义	vermicularadj.n. Brit. /vəːˈmɪkjᵿlə/, /vəˈmɪkjᵿlə/, U.S. /vərˈmɪkjələr/ Etymology: < medieval Latin vermiculāris, < Latin vermiculus : see vermicule n. So French vermiculaire (Paré), Spanish vermicular, Portuguese vermicular, Italian vermicolare. A. adj. 1. Physiology. †a. ? Full of vermicules. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > infestation by noxious creatures > [adjective] > with worms wormy1600 vermiculate1605 vermicular1655 vermiculous?1691 vermiculose1727 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [adjective] > consisting of > infested with > small worms vermicular1655 1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick vii. iii. 159 Somtimes it [the blood] is intermitting, watery, vermicular, when the Lungs are rotten by too much moisture. b. = peristaltic adj.Frequently from c1835. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [adjective] > motion of vermicular1673 antiperistaltic1706 vermiculant1707 antivermicular1717 1673 Philos. Trans. 1672 (Royal Soc.) 7 5137 We instance the Vermicular motion of the veins [of plants] when exposed to the air. 1722 W. Cheselden Anat. Humane Body (ed. 2) iii. xii. 194 After this it [sc. the food] is continually mov'd by the..Vermicular Motion of the Guts. 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. Notes 99 In such a structure it is easy to conceive how a vermicular or peristaltic motion of the vessel..must forcibly push forward its contents. 1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 9 Its [sc. the stomach's] muscular fibres are calculated to produce a constant undulatory vermicular movement. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 668/1 On the supposition that the arteries undergo an undulatory or vermicular contraction. 1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 181 This form of movement is also spoken of as the vermicular motion of the intestine. in extended use.1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 201 Sometimes these muscles are seen working under the skin in vermicular fashion. 2. a. Having the sinuous shape or form characteristic of a worm; consisting of, characterized by, tortuous outlines or markings; sinuous, wavy. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [adjective] > having many or winding curves tortivous14.. anfractuous?a1425 tortuous1426 tortuea1500 snakish1532 winding1538 wormy1545 boughty1570 wriggled1572 sinuous1578 serpent-likea1586 crankled1594 serpent1597 snaky1600 flexuous1605 snaking1605 cringle-crangle1606 voluminous1611 serpenting?1614 serpentine1615 curvy1623 serpentizing1628 worming1631 lacinious1648 anguineous1656 anguine1657 anfractuose1680 twisting1683 vermicular1712 worm-like1721 flexuose1727 meandering1748 crinkum-crankum1766 serpentiform1777 serpentining1799 anguiform1800 ophite1828 tortuose1829 cranky1836 sinuose1836 serpentile1857 twisty1857 sinuated1859 vermiculatea1864 twinyc1868 tortive1880 crinkle-crankle1881 serpentinous1882 quirky1890 twistical1890 waggly1894 wriggly1901 squiggly1902 wiggly1903 contortionate1911 wig-waggy1914 curvaceous1965 1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 180 The Vermicular, or Worm-like Gum, is one of the Arabian or Senega Gums. 1754 Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 87 This second furrow was..not in a strait line, but in a vermicular direction. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 30 A generation more refin'd..made three legs four, Gave them a twisted form vermicular. 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1816) I. xiv. 438 The vermicular shape..of the masses with which the [larval] cases are surrounded. 1860 W. F. Hook Lives Archbishops Canterbury I. i. 33 His mantle..ornamented with stripes or vermicular figures. 1875 C. D. E. Fortnum Maiolica ii. 16 Pottery of Moresque character and ornamentation with vermicular pattern in copper lustre. b. Botany. (See quot. 1866.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > having specific shape fingered1597 fistular1640 umbilicated1693 pectinal1705 fornicated1750 deltoid1753 linguiform1753 panduriform1753 lingulated1754 campaniform1758 augmented1760 ringed1760 securiform1760 urceolate1760 utricular1760 lingulate1763 vermicular1766 pandurated1771 navicular1793 semicolumnar1793 ungulate1802 capitellate1808 meniscoid1821 virgate1821 mitriform1824 pulvinate1824 caudated1829 vulviform1829 caudate1830 circinate1830 intruded1830 trochlear1830 scalariform1836 hippocrepiform1847 neottious1850 pulviniform1851 foxglove-shaped1856 clathroid1857 molariform1857 velate1857 strombuliform1859 calceiform1860 coralline1860 forniciform1860 urceolar1860 calceolate1861 frustulose1866 pandurate1866 intruse1870 scalar1880 meniscoidal1881 fingerposted1885 applanate1887 trochleariform1895 naviculoid1898 halonate1911 1766 Compl. Farmer at Madder The [madder] plants which are raised from layers..produce very few of those vermicular roots, which are the only valuable ones. 1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. Gloss. 641/1. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1210/2 Vermicular, worm-shaped; thick, and almost cylindrical, but bent in different places. c. Anatomy. = vermiform adj. 3a, 3b. ΚΠ 1843 J. J. G. Wilkinson tr. E. Swedenborg Animal Kingdom I. v. 148 The vermicular appendage is seen on one side of the fundus of the cœcum, resembling a miniature intestine. 1891 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Vermicular appendix or process. 3. a. Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, a worm or worms; resembling or like a worm. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [adjective] vermicular1713 helminthic1755 wormy1801 vermiculous1813 vermiform1835 vermian1878 vermean1905 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. viii. vi. 423 In its Vermicular-State, it is a Red-Maggot. 1720 Bibliotheca Biblica I. 152 Without the Taint of the polluted Vermicular Life. 1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 449 Several species of vermicular tubes found in the sea. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 114 Across the body are several annular divisions, or rather rugæ of the skin, by which the fish seems to partake of a vermicular nature. 1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 81 We may compare the erect spirit of a British Legislature with the vermicular servility of..the Senate of France. 1892 Sc. Leader 24 May 4 Vermicular patience, however, has its limits. b. Accomplished or made by worms; performed by means of worms. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [adjective] > accomplished or performed by vermicular1715 1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost II. i. 266 From thence came also Indian Figs, Nuts and Canes, and a vermicular kind of Web made of Silk. 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 153 The party, which the work stood pledged to oppose through all its vermicular attacks on the glorious fabric of British Institutions. 1887 C. Hazard Mem. J. L. Diman xv. 338 The trout here disdain flies. As Lewis phrases it, vermicular fishing is what succeeds. c. vermicular work n. (see quot. 1728 and vermiculated adj. 1c). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > representation of tracks made by worms vermicular work1728 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Vermicular Work,..in Sculpture, a sort of Ornaments used in Rustick Work; consisting of Frets, or Knobs, cut with Points, representing, in some sort, the Tracks made by Worms. 4. a. Of the nature of a worm. vermicular ascaris, the threadworm, Oxyurus (Ascaris) vermicularis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [adjective] > resembling or of the nature of vermiform1730 vermicular1784 vermiculous1818 vermiculose1847 helminthoid1854 scolecoid1858 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Nematoda > family Ascaridae > genus Oxyuris > member of > oxyuris vermicularis (threadworms) vermicular ascaris1784 threadworm1804 teat-worm1890 seat-worm1893 1784 W. Cowper Let. 13 Dec. (1981) II. 310 No animal of the vermicular or serpentine kind is crested, but the most formidable of all. 1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) III. 395 The Vermicular Ascarides are very common in the intestines of children. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 314 For the cure of vermicular ascarides, or maw-worms and bots, these oils have been used in the form of injections. figurative and in extended use.1825 Examiner 307/2 Fawcett..wanted a little more personal flexibility..; he cannot, at his time of life, be sufficiently vermicular.1854 J. R. Lowell Cambr. 30 Years Ago in Prose Wks. (1890) I. 89 Refusing to molest the canker-worms..because we were all vermicular alike.1872 J. Ruskin Arrows of Chace (1880) II. 189 Criminals..are partly men, partly vermin; what is human in them you must punish—what is vermicular, abolish. b. Comprising or consisting of worms. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [adjective] > consisting of wormatic1665 vermicular1886 1886 H. F. Lester Under Two Fig Trees viii. 117 Their [sc. worms'] minds, like their bodies, must be glutinous; hence they stick to the thin-end theory... There is no sect of ‘bigendians’ in the vermicular fold. 5. Pathology. Of diseases: Due to, caused by, intestinal worms. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of bowels or intestines > [adjective] > infestation by parasites > caused by verminous1666 verminose1747 vermicular1794 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 237 Hence the probable utility of fixed air in vermicular diseases. a1822 P. B. Shelley Devil in Prose Wks. (1880) II. 400 Persons subject to vermicular and animalcular diseases. †B. n. = vermicule n. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [noun] > member of (worm) > small cranet1577 wormling1605 wormlet1611 vermicle1657 nip-bud1658 vermicular?1691 vermiculus1694 vermicule1713 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > thought to be generated by decay or maggot wormOE matheOE maddocka1250 mawka1425 maggot?a1475 vermicular?1691 vermiculus1694 vermicule1713 ?1691 R. Clark Vermiculars Destroyed 9 A sort of invisible Worms or Vermiculars. ?1691 R. Clark Vermiculars Destroyed 11 The Putrefaction..is degenerated into innumerable Vermiculars. Derivatives verˈmicularly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [adverb] > in many or winding curves wrinklingly1387 cringle-crangle1781 crinkle-crankle1804 vermicularly1812 flexuously1846 sinuously1847 meanderingly1865 serpentiningly1871 sinuosely1874 sinuous1885 meandrically1886 1812 S. Edwards New Bot. Garden I. 84 The seeds..vermicularly wrinkled. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1655
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