vermiculation , auch: vermicular movement

The upperparts are cinnamon with fine black vermiculation and heavy stripes.

Me reading had twisted his universe all out of shape and now he was going to conspire in this perverted vermiculation.

It has dark grey plumage with fine blackish vermiculation (wavelike pattern) around the head and neck.

The drake's sides, back, and belly are white with fine vermiculation resembling the weave of a canvas, which gave rise to the bird's common name.

The female is plain buff cryptically marked with darker brown mottling on the back and vermiculation (narrow wavy bands) on the neck and breast.

It has a whitish throat, and the remainder of its underparts are olive-grey to buff with dark vermiculation on its lower flanks and vent.

The inset door, projecting plinth and 'v'-necked rusticated vermiculation (resembling tufa) were all derived from the base of Trajan's Column.

Decorative features of the building include use of vermiculation and replete with carvings of the faces of snarling lions and stern, bearded men in each key stone of the original building's central arches.

The design was not as ornate as Starkweather & Gibbs's, but the building does have elaborate quoins, or corner blocks, articulated with intricate vermiculation (the architectural term for a wormlike pattern in a stone surface).

"My Idea of Fun," set down in incredibly baroque, layered prose (which displays an unrestrained penchant for highfalutin words like eidesis, vermiculation, oedema and pleonasm), begins fairly simply as the narrator's account of his life.

But like an author's manuscript that shows the history of every edit, Mr. Marden's canvases bear the traces, clear or faint, of all the work, all the uncertainty, that went onto them - addition, subtraction, vermiculation (worm tracks, gentle reader).

In variations of rustication the stone is left with a rough external surface, or rough shapes are drilled or chiselled in the somewhat smoothed face in a technique called "vermiculation" (vermiculate rustication or vermicular rustication).