Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various small wormlike carnivorous animals of the phylum Onychophora, chiefly of moist forests, having a soft cuticle of chitin and pairs of short claw-bearing legs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Onychophora.
- noun A member of the Onychophora.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms; a member of the Onychophora, also called Malacopoda. See
malacopoda .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any of many
wormlike carnivorous animals of the phylumOnychophora
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Onychophora, phylum name : Greek onux, onukh-, nail, claw; see onyx + Greek -phora, neuter pl. of -phoros, -phore.]
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