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Peripatus synonyms

pə-rĭp'ə-təs

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onychophoran (related)
(Zoology) Any of many wormlike carnivorous animals of the phylum Onychophora
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velvet-worm
An ecdysozoan organism with tiny eyes, antennae, multiple pairs of legs, and slime glands.
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Peripatus Sentence Examples

  • Some of those zoologists who look to Peripatus, or a similar worm-like form, as representing the direct ancestors of the Hexapoda have laid stress on a larva like the caterpillar of a moth or saw-fly as representing a primitive stage.

  • The possession of gill-slits is as interesting a feature in the organization of Balanoglossus as is the presence of tracheae in Peripatus.

  • In Peripatus they occur in every somite of the body.

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