Pompeii worm

English

Noun

Pompeii worm (plural Pompeii worms)

1. Alvinella pompejana, a deep-sea polychaete worm.
   • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 88:

     The two-metre-long tube worms and the smaller Pompeii worms which bathe in scalding temperatures on volcanic vents in the deep ocean, and the bristly Christmas tree worms that achieved fame in impossibly large but otherwise accurate translation to the planet Pandora in the film Avatar