vermiculate

He regarded the thing as vermiculate, and ready to corrupt the obedience.

From The Elect Lady by George MacDonald

Remarks.—Specimens from the southern edge of the Edwards Plateau and the eastern edge of the Stockton Plateau have larger flecks on the back that tend to form a vermiculate pattern like that of S. guttilatus.

From A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus Syrrhophus Cope by John D. Lynch

My life seemed only a vermiculate one, a crawling about of half-thoughts-half-feelings through the corpse of a decaying existence.

From Wilfrid Cumbermede by George MacDonald

And to leave her would be to quarrel, and start a thousand vermiculate questions, as Lord Bacon calls them, for which life is too serious in my eyes.

From Robert Falconer by George MacDonald

With its feudal class system intact - if moth-eaten and vermiculated - British society exhibits small but crucial differences in its satiric temperament.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2015

He took the scientists to the kitchen and there in the cooking pot were the telltale head and feet of Scotopelia bouvieri, the little-known vermiculated fishing owl.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2013

The other part is ornamented with coupled pilasters, charged with vermiculated rustics, and other embellishments of highly-finished workmanship.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Francis W. Blagdon

Greater coverts and secondaries blackish vermiculated with white, the former narrowly edged with green, the secondaries only very faintly.

From Descriptions of Three New Birds from the Belgian Congo Bulletin of the AMNH , Vol. XXXIV, Art. XVI, pp. 509-513, Oct. 20th, 1915 by James Chapin

We find in the Marais narrow streets with old, carved, vermiculated doors, with overhanging gables, with balconies en moucharabies, which make one think of old Heidelberg.

From The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Burnham Ives