Pronunciation: ˌ p ō -g ə - ' nä-f ə -r ə n
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin Pogonophora, from Greek p ō g ō nophora, neuter plural of p ō g ō nophoros wearing a beard, from p ō g ō n beard + -phoros -phore
Date: 1963
: any of a phylum (Pogonophora) of marine wormlike animals of uncertain systematic relationships that live in chitinous tubes on the floor of deep seas, have obscure segmentation, and lack a mouth and digestive tract
– pogonophoran adjective