tubeworm · noun — any of many marine polychaete worms, mostly of the family Serpulidae, which construct permanent calcareous tubes on rocks, ship bottoms etc.
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Etymology
From tube + worm.
noun
- Any of many marine polychaete worms, mostly of the family Serpulidae, which construct permanent calcareous tubes on rocks, ship bottoms etc.
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Words closest in meaning
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- serpula 69% match — Any of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae that secrete a calcareous tube, usually irregularly contorted, but sometimes spirally coiled, with a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts. vs tubeworm →
- serpulimorph 67% match — Any of the family Serpulidae of annelid worms or similar. vs tubeworm →
- vestimentiferan 67% match — Any benthic marine tube worm of the phylum Vestimentifera, now usually considered to be family Siboglinidae in phylum Annelida. vs tubeworm →
- tubicolous 67% match — Inhabiting a tube. vs tubeworm →
- tubulariid 66% match — Any member of the Tubulariidae family of hydrozoans. vs tubeworm →
- escarpid 65% match — Any tube worm of the family Escarpiidae vs tubeworm →
- tubulanid 65% match — Any nemertean in the family Tubulanidae. vs tubeworm →
- tubicolar 64% match — tubicolous vs tubeworm →