vermicular

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His speech was bumbling, his gait "vermicular," his appearance unfetching.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a notable object in the dim little church, having a wooden canopy supported on four slim oak pillars with vermicular moulding.

From Demos by Gissing, George

On the skin immediately adjacent to them being pressed with the finger nails, these bits of coagulated lymph will come from it in a vermicular form.

From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Burroughs, Barkham

This may readily be seen in the muscular action of the intestines, called vermicular motion.

From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.

Mr. Whedell paused, for effect, and contemplated the vermicular work in the carpet.

From Round the Block by Bouton, John Bell