ACANTHOCEPHALAN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines

Synonyms:

acanthocephalan; spiny-headed worm

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("acanthocephalan" is a kind of...):

worm (any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae)

Holonyms ("acanthocephalan" is a member of...):

Acanthocephala; phylum Acanthocephala (phylum or class of elongated wormlike parasites that live in the intestines of vertebrates: spiny-headed worms)

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