Vermian: worm-like.
Vermicular: worm-like, tortuous: resembling the tracks of a worm.
Vermiculate: worm-like in form: a marking with wormlike tracings.
Vermiform: worm-shaped.
Vernal: appearing in spring.
Vernantia: the molting or shedding of the skin.
Verriculate: with thick-set tufts of parallel hairs.
Verricule: a dense tuft of upright hairs.
Verrucose: having little hard lumps or wart-like elevations.
Versatile: moving freely in every direction.
Versicolored: with several colors, indeterminately restricted.
Vertex: the top of the head between the eyes, front and occiput: in bees, that part of the head adjacent to and occupied by the ocelli: in Notonectids, "the imaginary anterior margin of the notocephalon."
Vertexal: occurring on or near the vertex, or directed toward it.
Vertical cephalic bristles: in Diptera, are two pairs, inner and outer, inserted more or less behind the upper and inner corner of the eye; erect, or the inner pair convergent, the outer pair divergent.
Vertical margin: in Diptera, the limit between front and occiput.
Vertical triangle: in male Diptera, the small triangle upon which the ocelli are situated; limited behind by vertex, in front by eyes.
Verticil: one of the whorls of long fine sensitive hair arranged symmetrically on the joints of the antennae in certain Diptera.
Verticillate: placed in whorls: antennae in which the joints have a circle of long, fine hair as in Cecidomyiids.
Vesicant: blistering: able to produce a blister.
Vesicle of p.e.n.i.s: in Odonata, a sac with chitinous walls, attached to the sternum behind the p.e.n.i.s.
Vesicles: little sacs, bladders or cysts: applied to extensible organs producing odors or secretions, as in some beetles and caterpillars.
Vesicular: bladder-like; beset with spherical prominences.
Vesicula seminalis: see seminal vesicles.
Vestibule: the s.p.a.ce around the ovipositor formed by the projecting margins of the surrounding segments: the s.p.a.ce between the occluding structure of the spiracle and the valve opening into the trachea itself.
Vestigial: small or degenerate: only a trace or remnant of a previously functional organ.
Vest.i.ture: the surface clothing, whether of a hairy or scaly character.
Vexhillum: in Hymenoptera, an expansion on the tip of tarsi of certain fossorial groups.
Vibrant: having a rapid motion to and fro.
Vibratile: formed for vibratory motion: used to express the almost continual movement of the antennae of some Hymenoptera, and the wings of some Diptera.
Vibrissae: curved bristles or hairs in some Diptera, situated between the mystax and the antenna: whiskers.
Villi: soft hairs or papillate processes: plural of villus, q.v.
Villose -ous: soft-haired or clothed with soft, short hair.
Villus: a short, hair-like or papillate process on the surface of certain absorbent and sensory organs.
Vinous: wine-color: a deep, transparent red-brown, like claret [purple madder].
Violaceous: violet colored: a mixture of blue and red [violet carmine].
Virescent or Viridescent: greenish or becoming green.
Viridis: green, like verdigris [French blue + chrome yellow + white].
Viscera: the internal organs of the body.
Visceral: relating or attached to the viscera.
Viscid: sticky: covered with a shiny, resinous or greasy matter.
Viscous: thick, sticky or semi-fluid.
Vis formatrix: the creative or formative force.
Vitelligenous: producing the vitellus or yolk: said of certain cells in the ovaries, believed to have that function.
Vitelline -us: yellow, with a slight tinge of red, like yolk of an egg.
Vitelline membrane: the delicate tissue surrounding the yolk of an egg.
Vitreous: gla.s.sy; transparent.
Vitta: a longitudinal, colored line.
Vitta frontalis: = frontal stripe: q.v.
Vittate: striped.
Viviparous: applied to insects which bear living young.