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Definition of Class polychaeta
1. Noun. Marine annelid worms.
Exact synonyms: Polychaeta
Group relationships: Annelida, Phylum Annelida
Member holonyms: Polychaete, Polychaete Worm, Polychete, Polychete Worm, Lobworm, Lug, Lugworm, Family Terebellidae, Terebellidae
Generic synonyms: Class
Group relationships: Annelida, Phylum Annelida
Member holonyms: Polychaete, Polychaete Worm, Polychete, Polychete Worm, Lobworm, Lug, Lugworm, Family Terebellidae, Terebellidae
Generic synonyms: Class
Literary usage of Class polychaeta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"One sub-class (Polychaeta) confined to the sea save for rare types in fresh-water
bodies near the ocean; the other sub-class (Oligochaeta) found mostly in ..."
2. Morphology of Invertebrate Types by Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch (1916)
"Descriptive Part Nereis virens is an annulated or segmented marine worm of the
class polychaeta. The number of segments of which its body is composed varies ..."
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