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Noun [English]

IPA: /vəmɪkjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ [Received-Pronunciation], /vɚˌmɪkjuˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ [General-American], /-kjə-/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-vermiculation.wav Forms: vermiculations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vermiculātiōnem, from vermiculor (“to be worm-eaten, to be wormy”) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or the results of actions) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-tis (suffix forming abstract or action nouns from verb roots)). The Latin verb is from vermis (“worm”) (from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis (“worm”), possibly from *wer- (“to turn”)). Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|la|vermiculatio|vermiculātiōnem}} Borrowed from Latin vermiculātiōnem, {{der|en|ine-pro|*-tis|pos=suffix forming abstract or action nouns from verb roots}} Proto-Indo-European *-tis (suffix forming abstract or action nouns from verb roots), {{der|en|ine-pro|*wr̥mis||worm}} Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis (“worm”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} vermiculation (countable and uncountable, plural vermiculations)
  1. (obsolete, rare) The process of being turned into a worm. Tags: countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable
    Sense id: en-vermiculation-en-noun-Zz2uuuAg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 34 27 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 31 37 26 6
  2. The state of being infested or consumed by worms. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (state of being infested or consumed by worms): vermiculación [feminine] (Galician)
    Sense id: en-vermiculation-en-noun-gcKZkxMi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with Italian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 34 27 9 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 22 56 18 4 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 31 37 26 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 30 42 25 3 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 24 48 20 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 22 48 23 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 24 51 19 6 Disambiguation of 'state of being infested or consumed by worms': 7 84 7 1
  3. 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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Design Translations (pattern of irregular wavy lines): vermiculure [feminine] (French), vermicolazione [feminine] (Italian)
    Sense id: en-vermiculation-en-noun-3zP6ZSSo Disambiguation of Design: 0 0 100 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 34 27 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 31 37 26 6 Disambiguation of 'pattern of irregular wavy lines': 4 2 88 6
  4. (physiology, dated) Peristalsis (“wave-like contraction of the digestive tract, resembling the movement of a worm”). Tags: countable, dated, uncountable Categories (topical): Physiology
    Sense id: en-vermiculation-en-noun-UJRi5qa~ Topics: medicine, physiology, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: biovermiculation Related terms: vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated [adjective], vermiculite, vermin

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1911, W[illim] H[ayes] Ward, “Style of Henry II. (1530–90)”, in The Architecture of the Renaissance in France: A History of the Evolution of the Arts of Building, Decoration and Garden Design under Classical Influence from 1495 to 1830, volume I, London: B. T. Batsford, 94 High Holborn, →OCLC, page 176:",
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          "text": "The design consists of repeated squares, each bisected by diagonals that form triangles filled with vermiculation (Pl[ate] 11, reveal pattern d). Design 2, in windows [18 and 30], has a ground similar to Design 1, but the stripes are overlaid with a continuous scroll pattern filled with vermiculation in umber line (Pl. 11, reveal pattern f).",
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          "ref": "1878 December, “Birds Occurring in India, Not Described in Jerdon or hitherto in ‘Stray Feathers’”, in Allan [Octavian] Hume, editor, Stray Feathers: A Journal of Ornithology for India and Its Dependencies, volume VII, numbers 3–4, Calcutta: Printed and published by A. Acton, at the Calcutta Central Press, 5, Council House Street, →OCLC, page 353:",
          "text": "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; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 188:",
          "text": "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.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1911, W[illim] H[ayes] Ward, “Style of Henry II. (1530–90)”, in The Architecture of the Renaissance in France: A History of the Evolution of the Arts of Building, Decoration and Garden Design under Classical Influence from 1495 to 1830, volume I, London: B. T. Batsford, 94 High Holborn, →OCLC, page 176:",
          "text": "The new building at the château of Joigny (begun 1569) has some interesting bits of classical composition very sober for the time. […] The outer gatehouse […] added by [Gaspard II de] Coligny to his château of Tanlay (1570) is an excellently proportioned building with effective use of rustication to give strength to the basement, the blocks being treated with patterns of anchors, waves, and ropes in lieu of vermiculation and in allusion to the owner's office of admiral.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, David Winfield, June Winfield, The Church of the Panaghia Tou Arakos at Lagoudhera, Cyprus: The Paintings and Their Painterly Significance (Dunbarton Oaks Studies; 37), Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, →ISBN, page 130:",
          "text": "The design consists of repeated squares, each bisected by diagonals that form triangles filled with vermiculation (Pl[ate] 11, reveal pattern d). Design 2, in windows [18 and 30], has a ground similar to Design 1, but the stripes are overlaid with a continuous scroll pattern filled with vermiculation in umber line (Pl. 11, reveal pattern f).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
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          "lines",
          "line#Noun"
        ],
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          "casts",
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        ],
        [
          "tracks",
          "track#Noun"
        ],
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          "decorate"
        ],
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          "artwork",
          "artwork"
        ],
        [
          "buildings",
          "building#Noun"
        ]
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        "English dated terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Physiology"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1890, Andrew Jackson Howe, “Ovariotomy”, in Operative Gynæcology, Cincinnati, Oh.: Robert Clarke & Co., →OCLC, section XI (Abdominotomy), pages 240–241:",
          "text": "When a patient dies on the fourth, fifth or sixth day, the cause is traumatic peritonitis. Lack of food, sleep and rest, is exhausting, but the poisoning of ferments—exudates and effusions in the peritoneal cavity—determines the fatal issue. Knuckles of intestines become agglutinated and held rigid. The normal and necessary vermiculation is cut off. At an autopsy the folds of the intestines seem glued together, as do the cerebral convolutions in brain fever. From such agglutination there is no relief—no method of cure. The injection of warm water and free manipulation of the bowels with the hand, is the only method of diluting the gluey exudates, and exciting normal vermiculation.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, International Journal of Oriental Medicine, volume 16, number 1, Long Beach, Calif.: OHAI Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46:",
          "text": "Deficiency of vital energy, characterized as \"gastrointestinal weakness,\" is a functional decrease of digestive absorption; i.e., insufficient secretion of peptic fluid, loss of appetite due to decrease of gastrointestinal vermiculation, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Peristalsis (“wave-like contraction of the digestive tract, resembling the movement of a worm”)."
      ],
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        [
          "physiology",
          "physiology"
        ],
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        ],
        [
          "wave",
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        ],
        [
          "contraction",
          "contraction"
        ],
        [
          "digestive tract",
          "digestive tract"
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      ],
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        "(physiology, dated) Peristalsis (“wave-like contraction of the digestive tract, resembling the movement of a worm”)."
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        "physiology",
        "sciences"
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        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/vɚˌmɪkjuˈleɪʃ(ə)n/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/-kjə-/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪʃən"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "state of being infested or consumed by worms",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vermiculación"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "pattern of irregular wavy lines",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vermiculure"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "pattern of irregular wavy lines",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vermicolazione"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Bossu"
  ],
  "word": "vermiculation"
}

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