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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 wormsplay

  Familiarity information: ONYCHOPHORAN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ONYCHOPHORAN (noun)


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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