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Definition of Peripatus
1. Noun. Any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod
Group relationships: Class Onychophora, Onychophora
Specialized synonyms: Plicatoperipatus Jamaicensis
Definition of Peripatus
1. n. A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order Malacopoda.
Definition of Peripatus
1. Noun. (zoology) Any onychophoran of the genus ''Peripatus'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Peripatus
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Medical Definition of Peripatus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Peripatus
Literary usage of Peripatus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1895)
"Note on the presence of peripatus insignis in Tasmania. ... Up to the present
time the only record of peripatus from Tasmania is that of a single specimen ..."
2. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1893)
"BY JJ FLETCHER, MA, B.Sc. • some years past a species of peripatus has been known
to occur in New South Wales ; and no one has ever said of it that after ..."
3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1880)
"The discovery by Mr Moseley * of a trachea! system in peripatus must be reckoned
... The discovery clearly proves that the genus peripatus, which is widely ..."
4. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"It should here be pointed out that peripatus also, in a few respects, ...
The relation of the maxillary ganglion to the brain in peripatus recalls the ..."
5. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society by Royal Society of South Africa (1878)
"The peripatus has a distinct head, which is provided with a pair of any jointed
... The peripatus has the peculiar habit of ejecting from its oral ..."
6. Report of Meeting by ANZAAS, ANZAAS. (1890)
"NOTES ON THE MUSCULAR FIBRES OF peripatus. By WILLIAM A. HASWELL, MA, D.Sc., Professor
of Biology, University of Sydney. Iv Hatchett-Jackson's revised ..."
7. Studies from the Morphological Laboratory in the University of Cambridge by Francis Maitland Balfour, Adam Sedgwick (1889)
"Neotropical peripatus from ChM, with nineteen pain of ambulatory legs. P. 197.
... Neotropical peripatus, with twenty- nine pairs of ambulatory legs. ..."
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