Zool. [ad. mod.L. Vermetid-æ, f. L. vermes VERMES.] An individual of the family Vermietidæ of holostomatous gasteropods.
1860. P. P. Carpenter, in Rep. Smithsonian Instit., 1859, 205. [The Vermetidæ (worm shells). Ibid.] Some of the Vermetids assume a looseness of growth as great as that of the worm.
