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polychete

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  • noun Any of many annelid worms, of the class Polychaeta, such as the lugworm; they have a segmented body with pairs of bristles on each segment.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles

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  • A paper in last week's Science1 was about the temperature tolerance of the polychete worm Paralvinella sulfincola that lives near deep-sea hydrothermal vents.

    Archive 2006-04-01 AYDIN 2006

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hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. annelid
  2. annelid worm
  3. segmented worm

hyponyms (5)

Words more specific or concrete

  1. bloodworm
  2. lobworm
  3. lug
  4. lugworm
  5. sea mouse

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  • fbharjo commented on the word polychete

    It is hard to shoo-away a polychete!

    April 4, 2012