vermiculate
41twisted — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Crooked] Syn. contorted, wrenched, bent, knotted, braided, twined, wound, wreathed, vermiculate, vermiculated, vermicular, vermiform, writhing, convolute, convoluous, twisting. Ant. straight*, even, regular. 2.… …
42vermiform — a. Worm like, worm shaped, vermiculate …
43anfractuous — adj winding, turning, sinuous, serpentine, snaky, tortuous, vermiculate; circuitous, meandering, devious; roundabout, ambagious, flexuous, curvy, curved; spiraling, circling, convoluted, volute, coiled; twisted, crooked, bent; mazy, labyrinthine …
44furrowed — adj 1. plowed, harrowed, grooved; fluted, ribbed, striated, corrugated; sulcate, channeled, rutted, vermiculate; caniculate, canaliculate, bisul cous, trisulcate. 2. wrinkled, creased, rumpled, rimpled, crinkled, knitted …
45gnarl — n 1. knot, protuberance, hump, bump, lump, bunch; gibbosity, swelling, excrescence, tumescence, protrusion; knob, knur, knar, knurl, nurl; nub, node, nodule, nodosity; boss, torus, bunion, button. v 2. twist, screw, twine, wrest, wring; contort,… …
46meandering — adj 1. circuitous, indirect, devious; anfractuous, winding, turning, sinuous, serpentine, snaky, tortuous, vermicular, vermiculate; roundabout, ambagious, flexuous, curvy, curved, wavy, undulating; spiraling, circling, convoluted, volute, coiled; …
47serpentine — adj 1. slender, svelte, lithe, elongated; wriggly, writhing, squirming, slinky; coiled, convoluted, spiral, (of a woman) Inf. curvaceous, anguilliform. 2. sinuous, winding, meandering, twisting; curvy, flexuous, curved, tortuous, crooked,… …
48tortuous — adj 1. twisting, winding, anfractuous, flexuous, sinuous, sinuate, undulating, serpentine, snaky, vermiculate, zigzag; turning, meandering, curvilinear, curved, curvy; spiraling, circling, convoluted, volute; tortile, twisted, crooked, bent; mazy …
49tortuous — [adj1] very twisted anfractuous, bent, circuitous, convoluted, crooked, curved, flexuous, indirect, involute, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, meandrous, roundabout, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, twisting, vermiculate, winding, zigzag; concept 581… …
50vermicide — n. substance killing worms. ♦ vermicular, ♦ vermiform, a. worm like. ♦ vermiculate, v.t. decorate with worm like markings; a. worm like; worm eaten. ♦ vermifugal, a. expelling worms. ♦ vermifuge, n. vermifugal substance. ♦ …
