POGONOPHORAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pogonophoran mean? 

• POGONOPHORAN (noun)
  The noun POGONOPHORAN has 1 sense:

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POGONOPHORAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

beard worm; pogonophoran

Hypernyms ("pogonophoran" is a kind 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)

Holonyms ("pogonophoran" is a member of...):

phylum Pogonophora; Pogonophora (beard worms)