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Chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles
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polychaete
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n. (alternative spelling of polychete English)
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n. chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles [syn: polychete , polychaete worm , polychete worm ]
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The Polychaeta or polychaetes are a paraphyletic class of annelid worms, generally marine. Each body segment has a pair of fleshy protrusions called parapodia that bear many bristles, called chaetae , which are made of chitin . Indeed, polychaetes are sometimes ...
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Fourteen species of autotrophic nannoflagellates, twenty heterotrophic flagellates, forty heterotrophic dinoflagellates, and several metazoans, including polychaetes, amphipods, copepods, euphausids, and fish.