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Transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth
Answer for the clue "Transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth ", 9 letters:
arrowworm
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arrowworm \Ar"row*worm`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A peculiar transparent worm of the genus Sagitta , living at the surface of the sea. See Sagitta .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth [syn: chaetognath ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context zoology English) A transparent marine worm of the phylum Chaetognatha, found in plankton.
Usage examples of arrowworm.
I was the blue-green algae floating on the currents, soaking up sunlight, and I was a diatom and an arrowworm and a kerfer slicing open the soft tissues of a jellyfish.