peripatid

English

Noun

peripatid (plural peripatids)

1. (zoology) A velvet worm of the family Peripatidae.
   • 2016 October 12, Susannah Lydon, “How did the velvet worm cross the world? The answer lies in amber”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Peripatids were already in South-East Asia in the early Cretaceous, and had made the journey the long, early way through Europe, rather than rafting in on India, and subsequently went extinct in the rest of Laurasia.