vermiculate

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

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

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

This bird was killed July 30, 1908, when the bird was in eclipse, but not perfectly so, as there were vermiculated feathers mixed with eclipse feathers on the breast, abdomen, and flanks.

From Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham

It is ashy grey in colour, barred and vermiculated with black.

From The History of the European Fauna by Robert Francis Scharff

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