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Arrowworm

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.

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arrowworm

n. (context zoology English) A transparent marine worm of the phylum Chaetognatha, found in plankton.

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arrowworm

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]

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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.