Defn: One who treats of vermes, or worms; a helminthologist.
VERMEOLOGY
Ver`me*ol"o*gy, n. Etym: [L. vermes worms + -logy.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A discourse or treatise on worms; that part of zoölogy which treats of worms; helminthology. [R.]
VERMES Ver"mes, n. pl. Etym: [L. vermes, pl. of vermis a worm.] (Zoöl.) (a) An extensive artificial division of the animal kingdom, including the parasitic worms, or helminths, together with the nemerteans, annelids, and allied groups. By some writers the branchiopods, the bryzoans, and the tunicates are also included. The name was used in a still wider sense by Linnæus and his followers. (b) A more restricted group, comprising only the helminths and closely allied orders.
VERMETID
Ver"me*tid, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any species of vermetus.
VERMETUS
Ver*me"tus, n. Etym: [NL., from L. vermis worm.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Vermetus and allied genera, of the family Vermetidæ. Their shells are regularly spiral when young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube.
VERMICELLI
Ver`mi*cel"li, n. Etym: [It., pl. of vermicello, literally, a little
worm, dim. of verme a worm, L. vermis. See Worm, and cf. Vermicule,
Vermeil.]
Defn: The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni.