vermiculate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb decorate with wavy or winding lines
  2. adjective satellite infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms
    worm-eaten; wormy.
  3. adjective satellite decorated with wormlike tracery or markings
    vermicular; vermiculated.
    • vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework

WordNet

Ver*mic"u*late transitive verb
Etymology
L. vermiculatus inlaid so as to resemble the tracks of worms, p. p. of vermiculari to be full of worms, vermiculus a little worm. See Vermicular.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Vermiculated ; present participle & verbal noun Vermiculating
Definitions
  1. 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.
Ver*mic"u*late adjective
Definitions
  1. 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.
  2. Crawling or creeping like a worm; hence, insinuating; sophistical. "Vermiculate questions." Bacon. "Vermiculate logic." R. Choate.

Webster 1913