polygordius
See also: Polygordius
English
Wikispecies
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
polygordius
- (zoology) A marine annelids of genus Polygordius, believed to be an ancient or ancestral type. It is remarkable for its simplicity of structure and want of parapodia. It is the type of the order Archiannelida, or Gymnotoma.
References
- polygordius in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for polygordius in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)