The adjective 'vermiform' is used to describe which small bodily organ?
Vermiform Vermiform Vermiform describes something shaped like a worm. The expression is often employed in biology and anatomy to describe more or less tubular or cylindrical, usually soft body parts or animals. The word root is Latin, "vermes"-worms and "formes"-shaped. A well known example is the vermiform appendix, a small, blind section of the gut in humans and a number of other mammals. A number of soft-bodied animal phyla are typically described as vermiform. The more well known one are undoubtedly the annelids (earthworm and relatives) and the roundworms (a very common, mainly parasitic group), but a number of less well
Collateral adjective Collateral adjective A collateral adjective is an adjective that is identified with a particular noun in meaning, but that is not derived from that noun. For example, the word "bovine" is considered the adjectival equivalent of the noun "cow", but it is derived from a different word, which happens to be the Latin word for "cow". Similarly, "lunar" serves as an adjective to describe attributes of the Moon; "moon" comes from Old English "mōna" "moon" and "lunar" from Latin "luna" "moon". The adjective "thermal" and the noun "heat" have a similar semantic relationship. As in these examples, the collateral adjective