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Definition of Polycirrus
1. Noun. Genus of soft-bodied polychete marine worms.
Generic synonyms: Worm Genus
Group relationships: Family Terebellidae, Terebellidae
Member holonyms: Bloodworm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polycirrus
Literary usage of Polycirrus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report Upon the Invertebrate Animals of Vineyard Sound and Adjacent Waters by Addison Emery Verrill (1874)
"Tentacles crowded, very numerous,, long and slender in extension, capable of
being distended by the blood,, as in polycirrus, &c. ..."
2. Elements of Zoology: To Accompany the Field and Laboratory Study of Animals by Charles Benedict Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty Davenport (1911)
"182) is reduced in size, and instead of gill tufts it has a large number of FIG.
181. — Amphitrite, removed from its FIG. 182. — polycirrus, the blood tube. ..."
3. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie edited by Albert Kölliker, C Th E von Siebold, Ernst Heinrich Ehlers, Waldemar Schleip, Wilhelm Jürgen Heinrich Harms (1884)
"26. Trotz des Unterschiedes in der Färbung glaube ich mich berechtigt, diese
Thiere zu aurantiacus zu stellen. 29) polycirrus pallidus Clap. ..."
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