Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A group of spiders which spin and inhabit a tubular web of silk, often strengthened outside with leaves or other materials; the tube-spinners. Compare
Tubitelæ . - A group of annelids.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of annelids including those which construct, and habitually live in, tubes. The head or anterior segments usually bear gills and cirri. Called also
Sedentaria , andCapitibranchiata . Seeserpula , andsabella .
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