Definition of Terebellidae

1. Noun. Marine burrowing or tube-forming polychete worms usually having long thick bodies.

Exact synonyms: Family Terebellidae
Generic synonyms: Worm Family
Group relationships: Class Polychaeta, Polychaeta
Member holonyms: Genus Terebella, Terebella, Genus Polycirrus, Polycirrus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Terebellidae

Tenzing Norgay
Teochew
Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski
Teodorico Borgognoni
Teotihuacan
Tepelenë
Tephrosia purpurea
Tephrosia virginiana
Tepic
Tepui tinamou
Tepui tinamous
Ter Sami
Terah
Teramo
Terebella
Terebellidae
Teredinidae
Terence
Terence Rattigan
Terengganu
Tereno
Teresa
Tereshkova
Teresina
Teri
Termagant
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense
Terminalia
Termitidae
Terni

Literary usage of Terebellidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United by Alexander Agassiz, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (1888)
"264), terebellidae, Sa- ... terebellidae, and Sabellidae extend to 300 fathoms, and such families as the ..."

2. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1897)
"... and terebellidae), and the eggs are different in size, in the quantity and quality of yolk, and in the relative size of the ..."

3. The Microscope: Being a Familiar Introduction to the Use of the Instrument by Jabez Hogg (1869)
"... the terebellidae, and the Serpulidae. The branchiae in the three former families are ciliated, branched plumes or tufts attached to the dorsal surface ..."

4. Amphioxus and the Ancestry of the Vertebrates by Arthur Willey (1894)
"... medusa) belonging to the family of the terebellidae, the nephridia of each side were joined together by longitudinal ducts, which he compared, ..."

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