POGONOPHORAN

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Meaning:

Slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering; lives on the deep ocean bottom

Synonyms:

beard worm; pogonophoran

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pogonophoran" 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 ("pogonophoran" is a member of...):

phylum Pogonophora; Pogonophora (beard worms)

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