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vermiceous

vermiceous is the alternative form of vermicious.

Meaning of vermicious

Adjective

vermicious (comparative more vermicious, superlative most vermicious)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of worms.
    • "I wish to dress according to the station in which Providence has pleased to place me. We are but worms, worms," said Mrs. Vivian, shaking her head mournfully.
      "You don't look much like one yet," said her son, with wonderful gravity; "and I wish you would not make vermicious allusions at...1870, Mary Allan-Olney, Estelle Russell, volume I, Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 278

Forms of vermiceous

comparativemore vermiceous
superlativemost vermiceous

Questions about vermiceous

What is vermiceous the alternative form of?
Vermiceous is the alternative form of vermicious.

Words near vermiceous in the dictionary

  1. vermicast
  2. vermicasts
  3. vermicelli
  4. vermicellis
  5. vermicelloni
  6. vermiceous
  7. vermicidal
  8. vermicide
  9. vermicides
  10. vermicious
  11. vermicle

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