vermicide (vermisid)

[L. vermis, worm, + -cīda, Some [anthelmintics] act obnoxiously on intestinal worms-destroying or injuring them.... These are. the vermicides of some authors. Pereira, Mat. Med. and Therap., p. 230. vermicious (vér-mish'us), a . See vermiceous . vermicle (ver'mi-kl), n. Same as vermicule. [Rare.] We see many vermicles towards the outside of many of the oak-apples, which I gue were not what the primitive insects laid up in the germ from which the oak-apple had its rise. Derham, Physico-Theol., viii. 6, note.