vermicule

From Latin vermiculus, diminutive of vermis (“a worm”). See vermicular. Doublet of vermeil.

vermicule (plural vermicules)

1. A small worm or worm-like organism.
   • 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:

     hence I apprehend we see many Vermicules towards the Outside of many of the Oak-Apples, which I guess were not what the Primitive Insects laid up in the Gem

• “vermicule”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

vermicule

1. vocative singular of vermiculus