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Webster 1913 Edition

Tubicolae

‖

Tu-bic′o-lae

,

Noun.

pl.

[L.

tubus

a tube +

colere

to inhabit.]

(Zool.)

A division of annelids including those which construct, and habitually live in, tubes. The head or anterior segments usually bear gills and cirri. Called also

Sedentaria

, and

Capitibranchiata

. See

, and

.