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from The Century Dictionary.
- An order or other group of chætopodous annelids, having the body segmented, the false feet or parapodia with many ehætæ setæ or bristles (whence the name), and the head tentaculate; the polychætous worms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) One of the two principal groups of Chætopoda. It includes those that have prominent parapodia and fascicles of setæ. See
Illust. underparapodia .
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