ver|mic|u|la|tion

ver|mic|u|la|tion
ver|mic|u|la|tion «vur MIHK yuh LAY shuhn», noun.
1. the fact or condition of being infested with or eaten by worms.
2. a marking or boring made by, or resembling the track of, a worm: »

The face of the boards is…eaten into innumerable vermiculations (Thomas Hardy).

3. Obsolete. peristaltic movement.

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