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noun
The process of being turned into a worm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, rare, uncountable
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noun
The state of being infested or consumed by worms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Peristalsis (“wave-like contraction of the digestive tract, resembling the movement of a worm”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated, uncountable
Topics: medicine, physiology, sciences
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noun
a decoration consisting of wormlike carvings
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: carving, embellishment
noun
the process of wavelike muscle contractions of the alimentary tract that moves food along
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: peristalsis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
History
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”)).
Across languages
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