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vermicule Biol.|ˈvɜːmɪkjʊl|
[ad. L. vermicul-us, dim. of vermis worm. Cf. vermicle.]
A small worm or worm-like creature; a maggot or grub. Also attrib.
1713Derham Phys.-Theol. viii. vi. (1716) 391 We see many Vermicules towards the outside of many of the oak-apples. 1778[W. H. Marshall] Minutes Agric. 24 Jan. 1775, Perhaps, from insects or vermicules, or both, comes smut. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) IV. 392 A transfer of vermicules from one individual to another. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases i. 18 The halteridium..slowly changes form, becoming elongated into a pigmented spindle-shaped body or vermicule. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 943 In the former..there is a corresponding or travelling vermicule stage.
Hence † verˈmiculist, a supporter of the view that generation is due to vermicules.
1784tr. Spallanzani's Diss. Nat. Hist. II. 249 The three principal systems respecting the generation of animals, the system of the ovarists, that of the vermiculists, and that founded upon the two liquors. |