Vermículor, pen. cor. vermiculâris, vermiculari. Pli. To be sull of uermine or wormes: to be eaten with wormes. Vermiculari, Plin.To make checker worke or other like with smal perces coloured, as in tables, boutdes, or pauements.Crustæ vermiculatæ. Pliu. Vermiculatom opus.Cic.A worke with sinall peeces of diners colours repesentíng sundrie pictures as wee see in tables and counters.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
vermĭcŭlor, ātus, 1, v. dep. n. [vermiculus], to be full of worms, wormy, to be worm-eaten, of trees: vermiculantur magis minusve quaedam arbores, Plin. 17, 24, 37, 220.—Hence, vermĭcŭlātus, a, um, P. a., in the form of worms: gummi, Plin. 13, 21, 20, 66.—Esp., of mosaic work, inlaid so as to resemble the tracks of worms, vermiculated: pavimento atque emblemate vermiculato, Lucil. ap. Cic. Or. 44, 149: crustae, Plin. 35, 1, 1, 2.—Of a quick movement of the finger, Mart. Cap. 7, 729.— Adv.: vermĭcŭlātē, in a vermiculated manner: tesserulas, ut ait Lucilius, struet, et vermiculate inter se lexeis committet, Quint. 9, 4, 113.