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Definition of Sipunculid
1. Noun. Small unsegmented marine worm that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body giving the appearance of a peanut.
Generic synonyms: Invertebrate
Group relationships: Phylum Sipuncula, Sipuncula
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sipunculid
Literary usage of Sipunculid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Artificial Parthenogenesis and Fertilization by Jacques Loeb (1913)
"the egg is exposed to the diluted sipunculid blood, membrane formation takes
place in the presence of the blood. However, it is also improbable that it is ..."
2. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"In the sipunculid larva, on the contrary, according to HATSCHEK (No. 5; cf. ...
The post-oral ciliated ring of the sipunculid larva lies still further back, ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"... Dartmouth College, devoted a few days to the collection and study of a rare
and hitherto undescribed species of sipunculid. Although two dredging trips ..."
4. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1896)
"... of the alimentary canal; these are usually rounded, but their angles may have
been removed by attrition before they entered the mouth of the sipunculid. ..."
5. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"Intestine. The division of the digestive tract in which absorption goes on.
Introvert. The anterior part of a sipunculid, which can be ..."
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