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Webster 1913 Edition


Tubeworm

Tube′wormˊ

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Noun.
(Zool.)
Any annelid which constructs a tube; one of the Tubicolae.

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tubeworm

tubeworm

See also: tube worm

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Noun

tubeworm (plural tubeworms)

  1. Any of many marine polychaete worms, mostly of the family Serpulidae, which construct permanent calcareous tubes on rocks, ship bottoms etc.

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