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Tube :: Tube (n.) A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm..

Telotrochous :: Telotrochous (a.) Having both a preoral and a posterior band of cilla; -- applied to the larvae of certain annelids.

Vermes :: Vermes (n. pl.) An extensive artificial division of the animal kingdom, including the parasitic worms, or helminths, together with the nemerteans, annelids, and allied groups. By some writers the branchiopods, the bryzoans, and the tunicates are also included. The name was used in a still wider sense by Linnaeus and his followers..

Trichophore :: Trichophore (n.) One of the saclike organs from which the setae of annelids arise.

Antenna :: Antenna (n.) A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. They are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids..

Anarthropoda :: Anarthropoda (n. pl.) One of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to Arthropoda..

Dorsibranchiata :: dorsibranchiata (n. pl.) A division of chaetopod annelids in which the branchiae are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [See Illusts. under Annelida and Chaetopoda.].

Lumbricus :: Lumbricus (n.) A genus of annelids, belonging to the Oligochaeta, and including the common earthworms. See Earthworm..

Pseudhaemal :: Pseudhaemal (a.) Pertaining to the vascular system of annelids.

Spirable :: Spiodea (n. pl.) An extensive division of marine Annelida, including those that are without oral tentacles or cirri, and have the gills, when present, mostly arranged along the sides of the body. They generally live in burrows or tubes..

Elytrum :: Elytrum (n.) One of the shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids. See Chaetopoda.

Setiparous :: Setiparous (a.) Producing setae; -- said of the organs from which the setae of annelids arise.

Tubeworm :: Tubeworm (n.) Any annelid which constructs a tube; one of the Tubicolae.

Scale :: Scale (n.) One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura; the elytra of certain annelids. See Lepidoptera..

Torus :: Torus (n.) One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids. It usually has the form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center. See Illust. under Tubicolae.

Gastrotrocha :: Gastrotrocha (n.) A form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral side.

Tubivalve :: Tubivalve (n.) A shell or tube formed by an annelid, as a serpula..

Cephalotrocha :: Cephalotrocha (n.) A kind of annelid larva with a circle of cilia around the head.

Appendiculata :: Appendiculata (n. pl.) An order of annelids; the Polych/ta.

Ligula :: Ligula (n.) A tongue-shaped lobe of the parapodia of annelids. See Parapodium.

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