vermiculate

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

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

From The Elect Lady 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

In spirits black, yellow spotted and varied, beneath gray, vermiculated with blackish; tail black-ringed.

From Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 by George Grey

Its white mantle, delicately vermiculated with black, extends like a wedding veil over the head, back and tail, in striking contrast to the blue-black underparts, red cheek patches, and red legs.

From Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China by Roy Chapman Andrews

A grayish species with the back and underparts finely vermiculated with reddish brown, and with streaks of darker.

From The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. by Chester A. (Chester Albert) Reed