Tubeworm

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various chiefly marine worms or wormlike invertebrates of the phyla Annelida, Pogonophora, Phoronida, or Vestimentifera, living within tubular cases made of mineral or chitinous secretions or of aggregated grit.
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  • n. Any of many marine polychaete worms, mostly of the family Serpulidae, which construct permanent calcareous tubes on rocks, ship bottoms etc.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Any annelid which constructs a tube; one of the Tubicolæ.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A tubicolous worm; one of the sedentary annelids which live in cases; especially, a serpula. See Tubicolæ, 2 .
    • Word Usage
    "Uncovering a novel mechanism of symbiont acquisition, researchers at Penn State and the University of Vienna have shown that the symbiotic bacteria infect tubeworm larvae through their skin."
     
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