Vermiform is an adjective meaning worm-like. Assuming that the features of a worm-like animal include bilateral symetry, leglessness and soft-bodies with a length greater than two or three times its breadth, there are 16 animalphyla which can be considered to consist solely of worms.
Being the termination of the caecum, the human vermiform appendix is also a "blind pouch," and another name for the appendix is in fact the "true caecal apex" (Berry 1900).
The anatomical definition of a vermiform appendix is a narrowed, thickened, lymphoid-rich caecal apex (Fisher 2000 and references therein).
Pester, G.H. (1965) "Congenital absence of the vermiform appendix." Arch Surg.
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