vermiculate

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Other potting soil recipes can include perlite, peat, vermiculate, sand or lime, but if you're planting a seasonal container, simpler is cheaper and just as effective.

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  1. transitive verb To adorn or decorate with wavy or winding lines.
  2. adjective Bearing wavy, wormlike lines.
  3. adjective Having a wormlike motion; twisting or wriggling.

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  • Other potting soil recipes can include perlite, peat, vermiculate, sand or lime, but if you're planting a seasonal container, simpler is cheaper and just as effective. —  News from www.thesunchronicle.com
  • What a breeding nest of vermiculate cares and pains was this human heart of ours! —  Thomas Wingfold, Curate V2
  • And to leave her would be to quarrel, and start a thousand vermiculate questions, as Lord Bacon calls them, for which life is too serious in my eyes. —  Robert Falconer
  • It is the property of good and sound knowledge, to putrifie and dissolve into a number of subtle, idle, unwholesome, and (as I may tearme them) vermiculate questions; which have indeed a kinde of quicknesse, and life of spirite, but no soundnesse of matter, or goodnesse of quality. —  David Elginbrod
  • My life seemed only a vermiculate one, a crawling about of half-thoughts-half-feelings through the corpse of a decaying existence. —  Wilfrid Cumbermede
 

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  1. Latin vermiculārī, vermiculāt-, from vermiculus, diminutive of vermis, worm; see vermicular.

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  1. from Latin vermiculatus, past participle of vermiculari, be full of worms, be worm-eaten, from vermiculus, a little worm: see vermicule.
  2. from Latin vermiculatus, past participle of vermiculari, be full of worms, be worm-eaten: see vermiculate, v.
 

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/vərˈmɪkjuleɪt/
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