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The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.

One who treats of vermes, or worms; a helminthologist.

A discourse or treatise on worms; that part of zoölogy which treats of worms; helminthology. [R.]

An extensive artificial division of the animal kingdom, including the parasitic worms, or helminths, together with the nemerteans, annelids, and allied groups. By some writers the branchiopods, the bryzoans, and the tunicates are also included. The name was used in a still wider sense by Linnæus and his followers.…

the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube.

eat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni.

A medicine which destroys intestinal worms; a worm killer. Pereira.

Of or pertaining to worms; wormy.

Of or pertaining to a worm or worms; resembling a worm; shaped like a worm; especially, resembling the motion or track of a worm; as, the vermicular, or peristaltic, motion of the intestines. See Peristaltic. "A twisted form vermicular." Cowper.

orm or work, as by inlaying, with irregular lines or impressions resembling the tracks of worms, or appearing as if formed by the motion of worms.

r Vermicular work (Arch.), rustic work so wrought as to have the appearance of convoluted worms, or of having been eaten into by, or covered with tracks of, worms. Gwilt.

The act or operation of moving in the manner of a worm; continuation of motion from one part to another; as, the vermiculation, or peristaltic motion, of the intestines.

A small worm or insect larva; also, a wormlike body. [R.] Derham.

alteration of some kind of mica. So called because the scales, when heated, open out into wormlike forms.

Containing, or full of, worms; resembling worms.

Resembling a worm in form or motions; vermicular; as, the vermiform process of the cerebellum. Vermiform appendix (Anat.), a slender blind process of the cæcum in man and some other animals; -- called also vermiform appendage, and vermiform process. Small solid bodies, such as grape seeds or cherry stones, sometimes lo…

A tribe of worms including Phoronis. See Phoronis.

Tending to prevent, destroy, or expel, worms or vermin; anthelmintic.

A medicine or substance that expels worms from animal bodies; an anthelmintic.

eneral. [Obs.] Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and vermin, and worms, and fowls. Acts x. 12. (Geneva Bible). This crocodile is a mischievous fourfooted beast, a dangerous vermin, used to both elements. Holland.