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Webster 1913 Edition
Polygordius
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Polˊy-gor′di-us
,Noun.
(Zool.)
A genus of marine annelids, believed to be an ancient or ancestral type. It is remarkable for its simplicity of structure and want of parapodia. It is the type of the order Archiannelida, or Gymnotoma. See
Loeven’s larva
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See also: Polygordius
English
Noun
polygordius
- (zoology) A marine annelids of genus Polygordius, believed to be an ancient or ancestral type. It is remarkable for its simplicity of structure and want of parapodia. It is the type of the order Archiannelida, or Gymnotoma.
References
- polygordius in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913