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meaning "little worm" because the shapes resemble worms, worm-casts, or worm tracks in mud or wet sand. The word may be used in a number of contexts for patterns that have little in common. The adjective
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Some species have patterns that look like little worms, others actually are little worms. Some of these names have now been superseded.
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where the stone is cut with a pattern of wandering lines. In metalwork, vermiculation is used to form a type of background found in
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was the most detailed technique, and pieces are often described as "vermiculated" in English.
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or decoration. Several species are named after this trait, either in English or by the Latin
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Vermiculation naturally occurs in patterns on a wide variety of species, for example in the
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is a surface pattern of dense but irregular lines, so called from the Latin
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See, e.g., Iain Campbell, Sam Woods, Nick Leseberg,
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Index

Vermiculated

common teal

chasse reliquary casket

feathers
birds
camouflage
architecture
rustication
Romanesque
chasse reliquary caskets
mosaics
opus vermiculatum
owls
Vermiculated fishing-owl
Vermiculated eagle-owl
Vermiculated screech-owl
Chaetodontoplus
Vermiculate parrotfish
Vermiculate shrew
Vermiculated tree frog
Vermiculated spinefoot
rabbitfish
Ocyropsidae
alder
Blutaparon vermiculare
Burmagomphus
Chelonistele vermicularis

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