PHYLUM POGONOPHORA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phylum Pogonophora mean? 

• PHYLUM POGONOPHORA (noun)
  The noun PHYLUM POGONOPHORA has 1 sense:

1. beard worms

  Familiarity information: PHYLUM POGONOPHORA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYLUM POGONOPHORA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beard worms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

phylum Pogonophora; Pogonophora

Hypernyms ("phylum Pogonophora" is a kind of...):

phylum ((biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes)

Meronyms (members of "phylum Pogonophora"):

beard worm; pogonophoran (slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering; lives on the deep ocean bottom)

Holonyms ("phylum Pogonophora" is a member of...):

animal kingdom; Animalia; kingdom Animalia (taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals)