POGONOPHORAN

[po.go.noph.o.ran] n [NL Pogonophora, fr. Gk pogonophora, neut. pl. of pogonophoros wearing a beard, fr. pogon beard + -phoros -phore] (1963): any of a phylum (Pogonophora) of marine wormlike animals of uncertain systematic relationships that live in chitinous tubes, have obscure segmentation, and lack a mouth and digestive tract -- pogonophoran adj