Microdrile

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any relatively small, generally aquatic, oligochaete, a member of a sometimes used size-based division of the class Oligochaeta.

    "Before the study was begun, the known oligochaete fauna of Tasmania consisted of six species of aquatic microdriles, twenty-three indigenous species of megascolecid earthworms, and introduced earthworms of the family Lumbricidae."

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megadrile

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"Before the study was begun, the known oligochaete fauna of Tasmania consisted of six species of aquatic microdriles, twenty-three indigenous species of megascolecid earthworms, and introduced earthworms of the family Lumbricidae."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) + δρῖλος (drîlos, “worm”).

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