What is "tubeworms"

Usage examples of "tubeworms".

We overflew a new terrain, a great prairie of huge tubeworms, their ciliated mouths making incessant, lascivious osculations.

A winged parasite of our Harpy's make—though a bigger, more carniverous breed—infested these tubeworms, hanging above them like carrion flies, diving to get past the worms' darting, seeking mouths.

The Celebrants were poised not too far from the open vent—evidently S’reee preferred the warmer water—in clear view of the strange creatures living about it: the twelve-foot stalks of the tubeworms, the great blind crabs, the colonies of giant blood-red clams, opening and closing their fringed shells with mindless regularity.