• (a.) Wormlike in shape; covered with wormlike elevations; marked with irregular fine lines of color, or with irregular wavy impressed lines like worm tracks; as, a vermiculate nut. • (a.) Crawling or creeping like a worm; hence, insinuating; sophistical. • (v. t.) To form or work, as by inlaying, with irregular lines or impressions... Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/vermiculate/
Ver·mic'u·late transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Vermiculated ; present participle & verbal noun Vermiculating .] [ Latin vermiculatus inlaid so as to resemble the tracks of worms, past participle of vermiculari Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/V/17