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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Peripatidae — theonychophorans .
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Examples
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It is very interesting to find that the pioneer animal called Peripatus, which bridges the gap between worms and insects, carries its young for almost a year before birth.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897
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Arthropods, such as Peripatus, Centipedes, Millipedes, and Insects, where the air is carried to every hole and corner of the body by a ramifying system of air-tubes or tracheæ.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897
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_Peripatus_, [449] Sedgwick was struck with the close resemblance existing between the elongated slit-like blastopore of this form (giving rise to both mouth and anus), with its border of nervous tissue, and the slit-like mouth of the Actinozoan (functioning both as mouth and anus), round which, as the Hertwigs had shown, there lies a special concentration of nerve cells and nerve fibres.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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_Peripatus capensis_ and _Balfouri_, it would be useless to look for embryonic differences; yet I can distinguish a fowl and a duck embryo on the second day by the inspection of a single transverse section through the trunk, and it was the embryonic differences between the Peripatuses which led me to establish without hesitation the two separate species ....
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Pathé, and the series of fishes and various invertebrates (including the curious caterpillar-like Peripatus) taken by Mr. Martin Duncan.
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Sleep not in the dogmas of the Peripatus, Academy, or
Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation Alexander Whyte 1878
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A peculiar use of the anterior members, as seen in grasping the food and conveying it to the mouth (perhaps originally a simple orifice with soft lips, as in Peripatus), would tend to cause such limbs to be grouped together, to concentrate around the mouth-opening, and to be directed constantly forwards.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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The only worm below the true Annelides that suggests any remote analogy to the insects is the singular and rare Peripatus, which lives on land in warm climates.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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It is remotely possible that some Silurian land worm, if any such existed, allied to our living Peripatus, may have been the ancestor of a series of types now lost which resulted in an animal resembling the
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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Sleep not in the dogmas of the Peripatus, Academy, or Porticus.
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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