vermiculate
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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
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
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
It is ashy grey in colour, barred and vermiculated with black.
From The History of the European Fauna by Robert Francis Scharff
The latter, which is square like a campanile, the corners being vermiculated, is noticeable for the elegance of a few carvings sparsely distributed.
From The Village Rector by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Above and breast rich buff finely vermiculated with black.
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Frank M. Chapman
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