vermis
noun
vermis is a noun meaning “A narrow, worm-like structure found in animal brains between the hemispheres of the cerebellum; it is the site of termination of the spinocerebellar…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-R-M-I-S, and it appears about once in every 33 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vermis is vermes.
What does vermis mean?
noun
- 1
A narrow, worm-like structure found in animal brains between the hemispheres of the cerebellum; it is the site of termination of the spinocerebellar pathways that carry subconscious proprioception.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vermis
- vermes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vermis?
Vermis appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does vermis come from?
From Latin vermis (“worm”), from Proto-Italic *wormis, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis. Doublet of worm.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).