vermicular

1. 1.

   decorated with wormlike tracery or markings

   “vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework”

   Synonymsvermiculatevermiculated

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Questions about vermicular

What does vermicular mean?

vermicular means "decorated with wormlike tracery or markings".

How many syllables are in vermicular?

vermicular has 4 syllables: ver-mi-cu-lar. The stress falls on "mi".

What is another word for vermicular?

Close synonyms include vermiculate, vermiculated. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vermicular a common word?

vermicular is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.