noun Etymology: New Latin, genus name, from Greek peripatos act of walking about, from peri- + patein to tread Date: circa 1931 any of a class or phylum (Onychophora) of primitive tropical wormlike invertebrates that appear intermediate between annelid worms and arthropods
PERIPATUS
Meaning of PERIPATUS in English
Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012