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Peripatus

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.

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peripatus

n. (context zoology English) Any onychophoran of the genus ''Peripatus''

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peripatus

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]

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Peripatus

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.