Translingual

Proper noun

Polychaeta

1. A taxonomic class within the phylum Annelida – various polychete marine worms.

Hypernyms

• (class): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Spiralia - superphylum; Annelida - phylum

Hyponyms

• (class): Palpata?, Scolecida, Echiura?, Errantia (syn. Aciculata), Sedentaria - subclasses

English

Noun

polychaeta ‎(plural polychaetas or polychaetae)

1. Any annelid worm of the class Polychaeta
   • 2015 September 15, “Selfies of Imperial Cormorants ( Phalacrocorax atriceps ): What Is Happening Underwater?”, in PLOS ONE, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0136980:

     The sediment type units used were: predominantly gravel (the most abundant sediment type around Punta León colony [34 ]), rocky, characterized by the presence of reefs (i.e. isolated small rocky outcrops that extend no longer that a few metres on a flat bottom [35 ]) and grasslike where more than 50% of the seabed was covered by structures such as polychaeta tubes and algae.