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annelid

ˈænəlɪd
WordNet
  1. (adj) annelid
    relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida
  2. (n) annelid
    worms with cylindrical bodies segmented both internally and externally
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Annelid
    (Zoöl) Of or pertaining to the Annelida.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) annelid
    One of the Annelida or Annelides. Also anneloid.
  2. annelid
    Of or pertaining to the Annelida or Annelides. Also annelidan, annelidian.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F. annélide, fr. anneler, to arrange in rings, OF. anel, a ring, fr. L. anellus, a ring, dim. of annulus, a ring

Usage in literature

Worms (or Annelids) wind in and out of the mud, leaving their tracks and tubes for later ages. "The Story of Evolution" by Joseph McCabe

The mud in many places was thrown up by numbers of some kind of worm, or annelidous animal. "A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World" by Charles Darwin

But the marine annelids, of which nereis, or a clam-worm, is a good example, are more typical. "The Whence and the Whither of Man" by John Mason Tyler

More interesting than the Annelids, however, are the Alcyonarian Actinozoa. "Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20)" by Various

This was the so-called Annelid theory of Dohrn and Semper. "Form and Function" by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

He was afterwards associated with H. Milne Edwards in works on annelid worms. "Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution" by Alpheus Spring Packard

Annelids undergoing fission, 169, 211. "On the Genesis of Species" by St. George Mivart

DYTICUS MARGINALIS, auditory rods of, 30; death-feigning in a fresh-water annelid when approached by, 204. "The Dawn of Reason" by James Weir

Nephridia: tubular structures functioning as kidneys in Annelids, Mollusks, etc. "Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology" by John. B. Smith

For the true Annelides (Chaetopods) are too circumscribed and homogeneous a group to allow us to look to them for the ancestral forms of insects. "Our Common Insects" by Alpheus Spring Packard