Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A class of Vermes having a long straight alimentary canal, an anus, a protrusile proboscis, and usually distinct sexes; the nemertean or nemertine worms.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
phylum within thesuperphylum Protostomia — the ribbon worms or proboscis worms.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun proboscis worms
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Examples
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He couldn't identify it but commenters say it's a Nemertea.
Boing Boing 2008
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Yeah ha ha … Nemertea I dissected one of these in my Invertebrate Zoology classes.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - What the crap is this thing? 2008
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Long live Linnaeus, Lineus longissimus (Gunnerus, 1770) (Vermes: Nemertea: Anopla: Heteronemertea: Lineidae), the longest animal worldwide and its relatives occurring in The Netherlands.
A very long worm in any case AYDIN 2008
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Of the phyla you haven't seen alive, I have seen: Chaetognatha, Nematomorpha, Nemertea, Sipuncula, Echiura which is really a subgroup of Annelida, Phoronida and Brachiopoda.
So many phyla so little time AYDIN 2008
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Long live Linnaeus, Lineus longissimus (Gunnerus, 1770) (Vermes: Nemertea: Anopla: Heteronemertea: Lineidae), the longest animal worldwide and its relatives occurring in The Netherlands.
Archive 2008-12-01 AYDIN 2008
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Thus, on the ground of a presumed analogy of certain structures to the vertebrate notochord, several invertebrate groups, as the Enteropneusta, the Rhabdopleura, the Nemertea, were supposed to be, if not ancestral, at least offshoots from the direct line of vertebrate descent.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Nemertine worms, also known as boot-lace or ribbon worms, belong in their own phylum, the Nemertea.
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Nemertine worms, also known as boot-lace or ribbon worms, belong in their own phylum, the Nemertea.
WN.com - Articles related to Scientists Gain New Understanding Of Disease-Causing Bacteria 2009
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Nemertine worms, also known as boot-lace or ribbon worms, belong in their own phylum, the Nemertea.
WN.com - Articles related to Sundarbans water warming eight times faster than global average 2009
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Marine biologists say lost and abandoned lobster, crab and other fish traps plague coastal waters around the globe, putting pressure on a number of already-stressed fish Nemertine worms, also known as boot-lace or ribbon worms, belong in their own phylum, the Nemertea.
WN.com - Articles related to Andrew Sharpless: Ocean acidification will cost us dearly 2009
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