vermiculen.
/ˈvəːmɪkjʊl/ Biology.
A small worm or worm-like creature; a maggot or grub. Also attributive.
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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
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. viii. vi. 429 We see many Vermicules towards the Outside of many of the Oak-Apples.
1775 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 24 Jan. (1778) Perhaps, from insects or vermicules, or both, comes smut.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 349 A transfer of vermicules from one individual to another.
1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. i. 18 The halteridium..slowly changes form, becoming elongated into a pigmented spindle-shaped body or vermicule.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 943 In the former..there is a corresponding or travelling vermicule stage.
Derivatives
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the world > life > biology > theories > person holding theory > [noun] > of origin or development of life
animalculist1730
epigenesist1784
vermiculist1784
animalist1800
epigenist1803
ovarist1816
spermatist1836
ovist1838
creationist1856
seminist1857
vitalist1860
monogenist1868
nomogenist1868
panspermist1868
abiogenist1870
heterogenist1870
panspermatist1870
ovulist1879
adaptionist1888
abiogenesist1889
thaumatogenist1891
1784 tr. L. Spallanzani Diss. Nat. Hist. II. 249 The three principal systems respecting the generation of animals, the system of the ovarists, that of the vermiculists, and that founded upon the two liquors.
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