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ARROWWORM

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Meaning:

Any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth

Synonyms:

arrowworm; chaetognath

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("arrowworm" is a kind of...):

worm (any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arrowworm"):

sagitta (any arrowworm of the genus Sagitta)

Holonyms ("arrowworm" is a member of...):

Chaetognatha; phylum Chaetognatha (arrowworms: a group of small active transparent marine worms)

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