sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.Millipede
any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs
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primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.horseshoe crab of the coast of eastern Asia
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.used in some classifications; includes the orders Xiphosura and Eurypterida
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp a…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp a…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles; superseded by the two subclasses Lepidosauria and Archos…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.large extinct scorpion-like arthropod considered related to horseshoe crabs
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.small nonvenomous arachnid resembling a tailless scorpion
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A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, herbivorous, nonpoisonous, arthropods, cylindrical.A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal su…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, herbivorous, nonpoisonous, arthropods, cylindrical.One of the body segments of Arthropods. See Arthrostraca.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, herbivorous, nonpoisonous, arthropods, cylindrical.One of the thoracic legs of Arthropods.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, herbivorous, nonpoisonous, arthropods, cylindrical.one of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or of an RNA mole…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, herbivorous, nonpoisonous, arthropods, cylindrical.The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, herbivorous, nonpoisonous, arthropods, cylindrical.A class of parasitic worms (Platelminthes) of which the tapeworms are the most common examples. The body is flattened, and usually but…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, herbivorous, nonpoisonous, arthropods, cylindrical.One of the two principal orders of myriapods. They have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are at…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, herbivorous, nonpoisonous, arthropods, cylindrical.A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, herbivorous, nonpoisonous, arthropods, cylindrical.A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises h…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, herbivorous, nonpoisonous, arthropods, cylindrical.Cylindrical, or approaching a cylindrical form.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, herbivorous, nonpoisonous, arthropods, cylindrical.An arachnidan of the genus Phalangium, and allied genera, having a small body and four pairs of long legs; -- called also harvestman,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, herbivorous, nonpoisonous, arthropods, cylindrical.Explore Academic Dictionary
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