Vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : vermiculate thought processes. From Dictionary.com.
Presumably, the specific name refers to the vermiculated shell. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
All birds, in this way, are vermiculated; and we are not and can never be. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
The one on the right, with almost a grey color and finely vermiculated colors, is male. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
It is here, literally to every dimple in the back of the falling hand, and every crinkle of the vermiculated stone-work. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
Elsewhere it looked flexuous, here it looked vermiculated and lumpy, and her marine experiences suggested to her in a moment that two currents met and caused a turmoil at this place. From Wordnik.com. [A Changed Man] Reference
Numberless irregular holes, capriciously bored or eaten out by the inclemency of the weather, gave an appearance of the vermiculated stonework of French architecture to the arch and the side walls of this entrance, which bore some resemblance to the gateway of a jail. From Wordnik.com. [Eug�nie Grandet] Reference
Young dark-coloured, with vermiculated marks on the chin, chest, and abdomen. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2] Reference
The sides, flank, and belly are white while the wing coverts are grayish and vermiculated with black. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Elsewhere it looked flexuous, here it looked vermiculated and lumpy, and her marine experiences suggested to her in. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages] Reference
This noble structure is of brick, with vermiculated stone-work at the angles and on the casings of the doors and windows. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Mystery] Reference
The chest is pinkish-brown with black speckles, and the back, sides, and flanks are vermiculated gray, separated from the chest by a white bar. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The other part is ornamented with coupled pilasters, charged with vermiculated rustics, and other embellishments of highly-finished workmanship. From Wordnik.com. [Paris as It Was and as It Is] Reference
The vermiculated stone copings of the hotel de la Force mark the transition between what is called the architecture of the Renaissance and that of Henri III. From Wordnik.com. [Catherine De Medici] Reference
This bird was killed July 30, 1908, when the bird was in eclipse, but not perfectly so, as there were vermiculated feathers mixed with eclipse feathers on the breast, abdomen, and flanks. From Wordnik.com. [Hormones and Heredity] Reference
These filed in about nine o'clock, their vermiculated horns lopping gracefully on each side of their cheeks in geometrically perfect spirals, a small pink and white ear nestling under each horn. From Wordnik.com. [Far from the Madding Crowd] Reference
I do not know Casa Landi; I have never seen it; and yet I think I can tell you of it: a gloomy-fronted pile of Romanesque architecture, the lower story remarkable for its weather-stained, vermiculated stone, and the ornamental iron gratings at the windows. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions] Reference
Its roof was of black slate, with bright unweathered ridge-tiling; its walls were of blood-coloured brick, cornered and banded with vermiculated stucco work, and there was cobalt, magenta, and purest apple-green window-glass on either side of the front door. From Wordnik.com. [Actions and Reactions] Reference
Forehead, crown, and nape finely vermiculated pale cream or greyish-white and grey, feathers on central forehead, crown, and nape with black pointed shaft-streaks up to 3–4mm wide, shaft streaks narrower towards side of crown and faint or absent on lores or above eye; shaft-streaks on central crown bordered by cinnamon-buff and grey vermiculation; top of head appears buff-brown with bold black streaks on centre, almost uniform pale grey-buff or pale grey on line from lores over eye. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
A quaint old French structure, with scaly and vermiculated surface, and deep-worn door-sills, and smooth-rubbed corners; the most picturesque and historic-looking public building, except the highly-preserved, little old court-house at Newport, that I can now think of in the United States. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy] Reference
These filed in about nine o’clock, their vermiculated horns lopping gracefully on each side of their cheeks in geometrically perfect spirals, a small pink and white ear nestling under each horn. From Wordnik.com. [Far from the Madding Crowd] Reference
The moist forests also have great diversity, including white-cheeked pintail Anas bahamensis, aplomado falcon Falco femoralis, brown-throated parakeet Aratinga pertinax, pavonine cookoo Dromococcyx pavoninus, vermiculated screech owl Otus guatemalae, burrowing owl Athene cunicularia, five species of emeralds and hummingbirds, chestnut-tipped toucan Aulacorhynchus derbianus, smoke-colored peewee Contopus fumigatus, orange-crowned oriole Icterus auricapillus, gray seedeater Sporophila intermedia, two-banded warbler Basileuterus bivittatus and black-backed water-tyrant Fluvicola albiventer (Sears 2001a). From Wordnik.com. [Canaima National Park, Venezuela] Reference
A number of species have a restricted distribution; however, including white-cheeked pintails (Anas bahamensis), aplomado falcons (Falco femoralis), brown-throated parakeets (Aratinga pertinax), pavonine cookoos (Dromococcyx pavoninus), vermiculated screech owls (Otus guatemalae), burrowing owls (Athene cunicularia), five species of emeralds and hummingbirds in the Amazilia genera, chestnut-tipped toucans (Aulacorhynchus derbianus), smoke-colored peewees (Contopus fumigatus), orange-crowned orioles (Icterus auricapillus), gray seedeaters (Sporophila intermedia), two-banded warblers (Basileuterus bivittatus), and black-backed water-tyrants (Fluvicola albiventer). From Wordnik.com. [Guayanan Highlands moist forests] Reference
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