Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several small, wormlike marine animals of the phylum Phoronida that have a U-shaped digestive tract and inhabit self-made chitinous tubes.
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- noun biology Any
hermaphroditic wormlike marine animals of the phylumPhoronida ; the horseshoe worms
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- noun hermaphrodite wormlike animal living in mud of the sea bottom
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Phorōnida, phylum name, from Phorōnis, type genus, probably from Latin, Phoronean, Argive (name of Io, priestess of Argos), from Phorōneus, son of Inachus, king of Argos, from Greek.]
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