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.Velvet worm
any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms
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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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An order of Protozoa, allied to the Rhizopoda, and parasitic in other animals, as in the earthworm, lobster, etc. When adult, they hav…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, velvety-skinned, wormlike, carnivorous, animals.any of numerous aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia some of whose leaves are modified as small urn-shaped bladders tha…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, velvety-skinned, wormlike, carnivorous, animals.any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, velvety-skinned, wormlike, carnivorous, animals.carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, velvety-skinned, wormlike, carnivorous, animals.any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, velvety-skinned, wormlike, carnivorous, animals.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, velvety-skinned, wormlike, carnivorous, animals.fern of rain forests of tropical Australia and New Zealand and South Africa
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, velvety-skinned, wormlike, carnivorous, animals.minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, velvety-skinned, wormlike, carnivorous, animals.A group of small wormlike animals, having cilia on the ventral side. The group is regarded as an ancestral or synthetic one, related t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, velvety-skinned, wormlike, carnivorous, animals.Any lizard of the family Geckonidae. The geckoes are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and vertical, ellipt…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, velvety-skinned, wormlike, carnivorous, animals.epiphytic fern found in lowland forests of tropical America
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, velvety-skinned, wormlike, carnivorous, animals.Of or relating to worms, or Helminthes; expelling worms.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: numerous, velvety-skinned, wormlike, carnivorous, animals.Explore Academic Dictionary
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