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VELVET WORM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms

Synonyms:

onychophoran; peripatus; velvet worm

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("velvet worm" is a kind of...):

arthropod (invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin)

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

Plicatoperipatus jamaicensis (a kind of onychophoran)

Holonyms ("velvet worm" is a member of...):

class Onychophora; Onychophora (enigmatic small elongated wormlike terrestrial invertebrates of damp dark habitats in warm regions; distinct from the phylum Annelida; resemble slugs with legs and are sometimes described as the missing link between arthropods and annelids)

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