Vermiculation

Quick meaning: Vermiculation is a noun meaning The state of being infested or consumed by worms.

Meaning

The state of being infested or consumed by worms.

More Meanings

1. (physiology, dated) Peristalsis (“wave-like contraction of the digestive tract, resembling the movement of a worm”).
2. A pattern of irregular wavy lines resembling worms or their casts or tracks, found on the plumage of birds, used to decorate artworks and buildings, etc.
3. (obsolete, rare) The process of being turned into a worm.

Example Sentences

The sermon rehearses [John] Donne's phobic obsession with putrefaction, vermiculation, dissolution, and dispersal.

The violent and voyeuristic imagery of the transi tombs, particularly in the horrific detailing of vermiculation, had a ghoulish counterpart in the 'grim coupling', the 'shaking of the sheets' of the danse macabre[…].

As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as "near-aissance."

74 ter A.—Scops gymnopodus. Gr. […] [F]eathers of the crown varied with blackish mesial streaks; the cross vermiculations being also rather coarser than on the back, all with concealed tawny buff bases, but very few with any indications of a subterminal buff bar, so that the general appearance of the head is very uniform; […]

Word Forms

• vermiculations

Synonyms for vermiculation

Depending on context, synonyms include peristalsis.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include peristalsis, vermination, worme, vermine, vomition, wormfood.

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