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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.

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.

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."

annelid    annelid worm    segmented worm   

lugworm    bloodworm    lobworm    sea mouse    lug   

polychaete