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beard worm

DEFINITIONS OF: beard worm

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n slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering; lives on the deep ocean bottom

Synonyms:
pogonophoran
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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