ˌ ̷ ̷ˈmēd.əs noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin vermis worm
1. capitalized : a genus (the type of the family Vermetidae) of marine gastropod mollusks having when young regularly spiral shells and being free to creep about and later becoming permanently attached to an object and developing separate whorls often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube
2. -es : vermetid