from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Any of various annelid worms of the class Polychaeta, including mostly marine worms such as the lugworm, and characterized by fleshy paired appendages tipped with bristles on each body segment.
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- n. Any of many annelid worms, of the class Polychaeta, such as the lugworm; they have a segmented body with pairs of bristles on each segment.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles
A paper in last week's Science1 was about the temperature tolerance of the polychete worm Paralvinella sulfincola that lives near deep-sea hydrothermal vents.