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vermiculous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ver-micu-lous
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Containing, or full of, worms; resembling worms; wormy.

Etymology

From Latin vermiculosus. See vermicule.

Inflected Forms

more vermiculous (comparative) most vermiculous (superlative) vermiculose (alternative)

Questions

What does vermiculous mean?
Containing, or full of, worms; resembling worms; wormy.
Where does vermiculous come from?
From Latin vermiculosus. See vermicule.

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