PERIPATUS


Meaning of PERIPATUS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pə-ˈri-pə-təs ]

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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