ECHIUROID


Meaning of ECHIUROID in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌe-ki-ˈyu̇r-ˌȯid ]

noun

Etymology: New Latin Echiuroidea or Echiura, ultimately from Greek echis viper + oura tail

Date: circa 1889

: any of a phylum (Echiura syn. Echiuroidea) of marine worms of uncertain taxonomic affinities that have a sensitive but nonretractile proboscis above the mouth

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