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ONYCHOPHORAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does onychophoran mean?
• ONYCHOPHORAN (noun)
The noun ONYCHOPHORAN has 1 sense:
1. any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms
Familiarity information: ONYCHOPHORAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
onychophoran; peripatus; velvet worm
Hypernyms ("onychophoran" is a kind of...):
arthropod (invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "onychophoran"):
Plicatoperipatus jamaicensis (a kind of onychophoran)
Holonyms ("onychophoran" is a member of...):
class Onychophora; Onychophora (enigmatic small elongated wormlike terrestrial invertebrates of damp dark habitats in warm regions; distinct from the phylum Annelida; resemble slugs with legs and are sometimes described as the missing link between arthropods and annelids)
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