Definitions for annelid

annelid an·ne·lid

Spelling: [an-l-id]
IPA: /ˈæn l ɪd/

Annelid is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 184 anagrams from letters in annelid (adeilnn).

Definitions for annelid

noun

  1. any segmented worm of the phylum Annelida, including the earthworms, leeches, and various marine forms.

adjective

  1. belonging or pertaining to the Annelida.

Origin of annelid

First recorded in 1825-35; See origin at Annelida

Examples for annelid

They transformed the annelid parapodia into legs and developed wings.

Dohrn assumed also that the primitive annelid ancestor must have possessed a notochord to give support in swimming.

He isolated the first two blastomeres of the egg of Lanice, an annelid.

Sometimes an annelid worm lives inside the shell along with the hermit and often the outside is covered with zoophytes.

He simply, therefore, substituted Arachnid for annelid in the old theory.

Clitellum, kli-tel′um, n. the saddle of an annelid, as the earthworm:—pl.

We have called it Cyclatella annelidicola, because of its residence in a Clymenian annelid.

But in the annelid the mouth is on the second segment; here it is on the fourth.

To form its skeleton the crab had only to thicken the cuticle already present in the annelid.

We see this realized in annelid worms known by the name of Heteronereid.

Word Value for annelid
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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