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Any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms
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peripatus
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Wikipedia
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Peripatus is a genus of velvet worms . The name peripatus (unitalicized) is also used to refer to the Onychophora as a whole, although this group comprises at least 48 other genera besides Peripatus .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peripatus \Pe*rip"a*tus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a walking about.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order Malacopoda.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context zoology English) Any onychophoran of the genus ''Peripatus''
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms [syn: onychophoran , velvet worm ]