• Ricky Rigatoni
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      411 year ago

      Vermillion is such a pretty word to mean worm colored…

      I guess a worm can be cute if you give it a bow to wear.

      • Echo Dot
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        41 year ago

        But worms are brown.

        Actually worms are transparent but they eat dirt, so they’re brown.

        • Ricky Rigatoni
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          121 year ago

          There are plenty of pink and red worms out there. And grey. And some green. A few blue.

        • AutistoMephisto
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          1 year ago

          And perhaps at one point they ate clay, so they would have been more reddish in color, or perhaps the dirt they were consuming was more reddish in color.

          • @GreatDong3000@lemm.ee
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            71 year ago

            Googled it. It wasn’t because of worms in general. It was from Vermiculus which is the diminutive of Vermis but also was how they called a very specific worm, at some point in time the only way they knew where to get red pigments from was by crushing this worm.