Definitions for annelids

annelids an·ne·lid

Spelling: [an-l-id]
IPA: /ˈæn l ɪd/

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

You can make 376 anagrams from letters in annelids (adeilnns).

Definitions for annelids

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 annelids

First recorded in 1825-35; See origin at Annelida

Examples for annelids

They transformed the annelid parapodia into legs and developed wings.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for annelids
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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