vermiform
- s resembling a worm; long and thin and cylindrical
- For non-cavers who read it, the sensation of being trapped in Mother Earth's vermiform appendix is persuasively real, and the impulse to run gasping into the open air is strong.
- A medium-sized vermiform appendix (they vary from less than one inch to more than seven inches in length) was successfully removed in Edinburgh, Scotland, last week from Miss Joan .
- The apostrophe, she hinted, is about as useful as the vermiform appendix.