chætophorous

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See also: chaetophorous

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chætophorous (comparative more chætophorous, superlative most chætophorous)

  1. Obsolete form of chaetophorous.
    • 1877, Thomas Henry Huxley, chapter V, in A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals, J. & A. Churchill, page 218:
      On the other hand, in the development of a mesoblast which undergoes division into segments, the Leeches exhibit the fundamental character of all such segmented Invertebrates as the chætophorous Annelida and the Arthropoda.
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