vermicular

• The crankcase is made of vermicular-graphite cast iron. —  Automotive Headlines
• The cylinder block is made of vermicular-graphite cast iron, a high-tech material which unites high rigidity with low weight. —  Top Speed
• Many engines uses aluminium and vermicular graphite cast iron, which is the result of a high-tech production process, to reduce the weight of the crankcase. —  Autoblog Green
• The most loathsome and inexcusable instance in point is the "Vision of Annihilation" depicted by the vermicular, infested imagination of the great Teutonic phantasist while yet writhing under the sanguinary fumes of some horrid attack of nightmare. —  The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
• See Grew, Plate 51 In such a structure it is easy to conceive how a vermicular or peristaltic motion of the vessel beginning at the lowest part of it, each spiral ring successively contracting itself till it fills up the tube, must forcibly push forwards its contents, as from the roots of vines in the bleeding season; and if this vermicular motion should begin at the upper end of the vessel it is as easy to see how it must carry its contained fluid in a contrary direction. —  The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation

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