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Definition of Annelida
1. Noun. Segmented worms: earthworms; lugworms; leeches.
Group relationships: Animal Kingdom, Animalia, Kingdom Animalia
Member holonyms: Annelid, Annelid Worm, Segmented Worm, Archiannelida, Class Archiannelida, Class Oligochaeta, Oligochaeta, Class Polychaeta, Polychaeta, Class Hirudinea, Hirudinea
Generic synonyms: Phylum
Definition of Annelida
1. n. pl. A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chætopoda, including the Oligochæta or earthworms and Polychæta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chætopoda.
Medical Definition of Annelida
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Annelida
Literary usage of Annelida
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The annelida may be described as bilaterally symmetrical animals, with flattened
or cylindrical bodies, composed of numerous soft rings, or without such. ..."
2. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eúgen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"... of the Crustacea from Phyllopoda-like ancestors, a connection of the latter
with the annelida yields the most natural derivation for the whole group. ..."
3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1833)
"The bristles which compose a bundle for • M. Savigny has proposed a division of
annelida, according to their having bristles for locomotion or not; ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1867)
"The same author communicated some remarks on the Turbellaria and annelida of
North Uist, of which he had found about 110 species, including many rare and ..."
5. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1878)
"In 1845, in his memoir ' On the Development of the annelida,' Milne-Edwards,
after having ... Since then, the larvae of the annelida havo been much studied, ..."
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