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acanthocephalan

DEFINITIONS OF: acanthocephalan

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n any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines

Synonyms:
spiny-headed worm
Type of:
worm
any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
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