Vocabulary : Vermicelli to Vermiculite

Vermicelli : 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.
Vermicide : A medicine which destroys intestinal worms; a worm killer.
Vermicious : Of or pertaining to worms; wormy.
Vermicular : 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.
Vermiculate : 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. ;; 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. ;; Crawling or creeping like a worm; hence, insinuating; sophistical.

Vermiculated : of Vermiculate ;; Made or marked with irregular wavy lines or impressions; vermiculate.
Vermiculating : of Vermiculate
Vermiculation : 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. ;; The act of vermiculating, or forming or inlaying so as to resemble the motion, track, or work of a worm. ;; Penetration by worms; the state of being wormeaten. ;; A very fine wavy crosswise color marking, or a patch of such markings, as on the feathers of birds.
Vermicule : A small worm or insect larva; also, a wormlike body.
Vermiculite : 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.

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