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Vermeologist
- - One who treats of vermes, or worms; a helminthologist.
Vermiculated
- verb - decorate with wavy or winding lines
- decorated with wormlike tracery or markings; "vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework"
Vermiculates
- verb - decorate with wavy or winding lines
Vermiculites
- noun - any of a group of yellow or brown hydrous silicate minerals having a micaceous structure
Vermilinguia
- - A tribe of edentates comprising the South American ant-eaters. The tongue is long, slender, exsertile, and very flexible, whence the name. (b) A tribe of Old World lizards which comprises the chameleon. They have long, flexible tongues.
Vernacularly
- - In a vernacular manner; in the vernacular.
Verner's Law
- noun - a qualification of Grimm''s law
- a qualification of Grimm's law
- A statement, propounded by the Danish philologist Karl Verner in 1875, which explains certain apparent exceptions to Grimm's law by the original position of the accent. Primitive Indo-European k, t, p, became first in Teutonic h, th, f, and appear without further change in old Teutonic, if the accent rested on the preceding syllable; but these sounds became voiced and produced g, d, b, if the accent was originally on a different syllable. Similarly s either remained unchanged, or it became z and later r. Example: Skt. sapt'e`pta, Gothic sibun (seven). Examples in English are dead by the side of death, to rise and to rear.
Verpa Conica
- noun - a morel with a fertile portion that has a relatively smooth surface; the stalk is fragile