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onychophoran

DEFINITIONS OF: onychophoran

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n any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms

Synonyms:
peripatus, velvet worm
Types:
Plicatoperipatus jamaicensis
a kind of onychophoran
Type of:
arthropod
invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin
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