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annelid

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The annelids ( Annelida , from Latin , "little ring"), also known as the ringed worms or segmented worms , are a large phylum , with over 17,000 extant species including ragworms , earthworms , and leeches . The species exist in and have adapted to various ...

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adj. relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida [syn: annelidan ]

Usage examples of annelid.

Textures rippled into visibility: a mottled striation of greens in the annelid segments, facets in the trilateral chameleon eyes.

But though the annelids were fresh and the dried anemone crunchy and well seasoned, the food failed to alleviate his discomfort.

But it is conceivable that the now utterly lost branchiae might have been gradually worked in by natural selection for some quite distinct purpose: in the same manner as, on the view entertained by some naturalists that the branchiae and dorsal scales of Annelids are homologous with the wings and wing-covers of insects, it is probable that organs which at a very ancient period served for respiration have been actually converted into organs of flight.

There must be strong survivorship among the lower orders: fish, insects, annelids.

As on other worlds, the ocean swarmed with copepods, salps, annelid worms, sponges, and jellyfish, and with squid, swallowers, sharks and other fishes higher on the food chain.

But it is conceivable that the now utterly lost branchiae might have been gradually worked in by natural selection for some quite distinct purpose: in the same manner as, on the view entertained by some naturalists that the branchiae and dorsal scales of Annelids are homologous with the wings and wing-covers of insects, it is probable that organs which at a very ancient period served for respiration have been actually converted into organs of flight.

Wave ripples on the sand: the traces of annelids, solens, clams: a distant flight of dunlins, close-packed, flying fast, all wheeling together and changing colour as they wheeled.

Kllhe - the annelid worm, introduced to domestic hlai-pens, which ingests the acidic dung and thus processes it to usable fertilizer.

Mainly the same chemicals, two sexes, vertebrates descended from something like an annelid worm, and so forth.