POGONOPHORAN


Meaning of POGONOPHORAN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌpō-gə-ˈnä-fə-rən ]

noun

Etymology: New Latin Pogonophora, from Greek pōgōnophora, neuter plural of pōgōnophoros wearing a beard, from pōgōn 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

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