polychaeta

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English

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Etymology

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From the class name.

Noun

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polychaeta (plural polychaetas or polychaetae)

  1. Any annelid worm of the class Polychaeta
    • 2015 September 15, “Selfies of Imperial Cormorants ( Phalacrocorax atriceps ): What Is Happening Underwater?”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      The sediment type units used were: predominantly gravel (the most abundant sediment type around Punta León colony [34 ]), rocky, characterized by the presence of reefs (i.e. isolated small rocky outcrops that extend no longer that a few metres on a flat bottom [35 ]) and grasslike where more than 50% of the seabed was covered by structures such as polychaeta tubes and algae.