PERIPATUS


Meaning of PERIPATUS in English

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

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