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Definition of Nemertean
1. Noun. Soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract.
Generic synonyms: Worm
Group relationships: Nemertea, Nemertina, Phylum Nemertea, Phylum Nemertina
Definition of Nemertean
1. a. Of or pertaining to the Nemertina.
Definition of Nemertean
1. Noun. Any of several unsegmented, brightly-coloured worms, of the phylum ''Nemertea''; the ribbon worms ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nemertean
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nemertean
Literary usage of Nemertean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"IN 1844 Kolliker found a small species of nemertean among the egg masses carried
about on the abdominal hairs of a " small crab" at Messina. ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"An Hermaphrodite nemertean from the Mediterranean. By AF MARION. Prof. W.
Keferstein lately described (Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 1868), under the name of ..."
3. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"Their food seemed to consist, judging by these instances, of nemertean worms,
beetles (only the harder body parts and wings remaining undigested in the ..."
4. Habit and Intelligence: A Series of Essays on the Laws of Life and Mind by Joseph John Murphy (1879)
"... has traced the development of a nemertean worm belonging to the genus Linens,
the larval form of which is called by him a ..."
5. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1895)
"The anterior pair of discs becomes the head of the nemertean (as far back as the
lateral grooves), whereas the posterior pair gives rise to the ectoderm of ..."
6. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1900)
"This nemertean he supposed to be the young of M. ... in 1854 (12) and Krohn in
1858 (19) discuss further the relations of the young nemertean to the ..."
7. A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1888)
"Newly-freed nemertean. In species of the genus Lineus, the ciliated embryo which
leaves the egg is speedily converted into a body like a helmet with ..."
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