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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VERMICEL'LI, n. [L. vermiculus, from vermis, a worm.]
A cookery, little rolls or threads of paste, or a composition of flour, eggs, sugar and saffron, used in soups and pottages.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: pasta in strings thinner than spaghetti

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Italian, from plural of vermicello, diminutive of verme worm, from Latin vermis Date: 1669 pasta made in long solid strings smaller in diameter than spaghetti

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 pasta made in long slender threads. 2 shreds of chocolate used as cake decoration etc. Etymology: It., pl. of vermicello dimin. of verme f. L vermis worm

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vermicelli Ver`mi*cel"li, n. [It., pl. of vermicello, literally, a little worm, dim. of verme a worm, L. vermis. See Worm, and cf. Vermicule, Vermeil.] The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni.