Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various chiefly marine worms or wormlike invertebrates of the phyla Annelida, Pogonophora, Phoronida, or Vestimentifera, living within tubular cases made of mineral or chitinous secretions or of aggregated grit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A tubicolous worm; one of the sedentary annelids which live in cases; especially, a serpula. See Tubicolæ, 2 .
Wiktionary
- n. biology Any of many marine polychaete worms, mostly of the family Serpulidae, which construct permanent calcareous tubes on rocks, ship bottoms etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) Any annelid which constructs a tube; one of the Tubicolæ.
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“Uncovering a novel mechanism of symbiont acquisition, researchers at Penn State and the University of Vienna have shown that the symbiotic bacteria infect tubeworm larvae through their skin.”
“The researchers picked that name to highlight the presence of a pink form of the jellyfish order Stauromedusae as well as numerous spiky tubeworm casings that festoon the vent chimney and bring to mind "the serpent-haired Medusa of Greek myth," said expedition leader Emily Klein.”
“Other times, the eruption intensifies and leads to, in this case, a tubeworm barbecue.”
“The unnamed worms are known as annelids, a group that also includes the familiar garden earthworm, as well as more unusual critters such as the giant hydrothermal vent tubeworm.”
“Robert Feldman has been fascinated with the deep-sea hydrothermal vent tubeworm since high school.”
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“At the precipice of pubescence, the young naked initiates drop jaw to the erotic banquet," Mackert precisely preaches, "By which they are conducted through Salivia, the sopping tubeworm reclining pinkly through space, connecting first to second Earth.”
“It was found in a fleece-like lining on the backs of Pompeii worms, a type of tubeworm that lives at hydrothermal vents, and in bacterial mats on the surfaces of the vents 'chimney structures.”
“I'll go ahead and nominate "throbbing tubeworm" and "quivering hagfish" as future alternatives … I been watching teh PBS”
“The 'wildcat' tubeworm had hit a gusher and was dining on chemicals from decomposing oil," the scientists said in a press statement.”
“Another was a "wildcat" tubeworm caught in the act of dining on crude oil in the”
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