/poh'geuh nof"euhr euhn/ , n.
any member of the small phylum Pogonophora, slender tentacled animals having a tubelike outer covering, living on the deep ocean bottom. Also called beard worm .
[ Pogonophor ( a ) phylum name (Gk pogono-, comb. form repr. pógon beard (see -O-) + -phora, neut. pl. of -phoros bearing, -PHOROUS; so named from the beardlike appearance of their short tentacles) + -AN ]