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Definition of Pentastomida
1. Noun. Tongue worms.
Group relationships: Arthropoda, Phylum Arthropoda
Member holonyms: Pentastomid, Tongue Worm
Generic synonyms: Phylum
Definition of Pentastomida
1. n. pl. Same as Linguatulina.
Medical Definition of Pentastomida
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentastomida
Literary usage of Pentastomida
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1914)
"It may be safer, therefore, to derive both the Tardigrada and the pentastomida
directly from primitive, annulated worms, and to regard them as separate ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1878)
"The trilobites are associated with the tardigrades and pentastomida into a ...
and pentastomida when both the latter groups are undoubtedly low Arachnids ? ..."
3. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"They live on tree trunks, and in the débris in ditches. The pentastomida (Fig.
331) are parasitic in the noses of flesh-eating vertebrates. ..."
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