Definition of Chaetopod

1. Noun. (zoology) Any of the Chaetopoda. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chaetopod

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaetopod

chaebol
chaebols
chaenactis
chaeta
chaetae
chaetal
chaetiferous
chaetocin
chaetodon
chaetognath
chaetognathan
chaetognathous
chaetognaths
chaetomium
chaetophorous
chaetopod (current term)
chaetopods
chaetotaxies
chaetotaxy
chafe
chafed
chafer
chaferies
chafers
chafery
chafes
chafeweed
chaff
chaffed
chaffer

Literary usage of Chaetopod

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

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"A similar constitution of the body is more clearly seen in the chaetopod worms. ... In Peri- patus the prostomium of the chaetopod-like ancestor is ..."

2. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"... bristles springing from the oral region are the setiform appendages handed down from the unsegmented ancestors of the existing chaetopod forms. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... many chaetopod and Decapod larvae). ID many cases tw more of these are combined in the same organism. standing the above adaptations, some of which are ..."

4. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1877)
"The same is true of some Pteropod larvae. Many chaetopod larvae are also in this condition. It seems to be quite possible that the branchial filaments of ..."

5. Chesapeake Zoölogical Laboratory by Johns Hopkins University, William Keith Brooks (1879)
"Ancient chaetopod worms culminated in two parallel lines, on the one hand, in the Brachiopods, and on the other, in the fixed and highly ..."

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