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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any marine, wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pogonophora.
2. 2
   slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering; lives on the deep ocean bottom wordnet

Adjective

1. 1
   Characteristic of these creatures

Synonyms

All synonyms

beard wormbeard worm

Etymology

Pogonophora + -an

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