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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various often large marine annelid tubeworms of the family Siboglinidae that inhabit deep-sea hydrothermal vents and lack a digestive system, depending on endosymbiotic bacteria for nutrition. Vestimentiferans were formerly classified in the phylum Vestimentifera.
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- noun biology Any
benthic marine tube worm of the phylum Vestimentifera
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Vestīmentifera, former phylum name : Latin vestīmentum, outer garment; see vestment + Latin -fera, neuter pl. of -fer, -fer.]
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