Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various unsegmented chiefly carnivorous worms of the phylum Nemertea (or Nemertini) that have a long, often brightly colored body with an extensible proboscis and typically live in the sea or in the mud of the intertidal zone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the Nemertea, or having their characters.
- noun A worm of the class Nemertea.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Nemertina.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several unsegmented, brightly-coloured
worms , of the phylumNemertea ; the ribbon worms
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Other predators include crayfish, turbellarians, and nemertean worms.
Nematoda 2008
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I don't know much about nemertean biology, so I looked them up in my old edition of Barnes' Invertebrate Biology.
A very long worm in any case AYDIN 2008
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The ecoregion has witnessed the recent extinction of many endemic species, including the Bermuda spike rush (Eloecharis bermudiana) and the only endemic nemertean, Pantinonemertes agricola.
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There is also one potentially endemic spider, 11 endemic terrestrial mollusks, and one (now-extinct) endemic nemertean, Pantinonemertes agricola.
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In the deep sea live some of the most bizarre and highly adapted creatures on the planet Three-foot nemertean worms and carnivorous sea stars prowl the Antarctic in search of flesh
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In the deep sea live some of the most bizarre and highly adapted creatures on the planet Three-foot nemertean worms and carnivorous sea stars prowl the Antarctic in search of flesh
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In the deep sea live some of the most bizarre and highly adapted creatures on the planet Three-foot nemertean worms and carnivorous sea stars prowl the Antarctic in search of flesh
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In the deep sea live some of the most bizarre and highly adapted creatures on the planet Three-foot nemertean worms and carnivorous sea stars prowl the Antarctic in search of flesh
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In the deep sea live some of the most bizarre and highly adapted creatures on the planet Three-foot nemertean worms and carnivorous sea stars prowl the Antarctic in search of flesh
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In the deep sea live some of the most bizarre and highly adapted creatures on the planet Three-foot nemertean worms and carnivorous sea stars prowl the Antarctic in search of flesh
hernesheir commented on the word nemertean
nemertine, nemertinean.
July 15, 2010