单词 | velvet worm |
释义 | velvet worm (once / 1969886 pages) n WORD FAMILY velvet worm: velvet worms USAGE EXAMPLES“The only group where we find nearly as many nerves is in the velvet worms, which are cousins to the arthropods.” The Guardian(Feb 29, 2016) But with such distinct styling compared with modern velvet worms, it's hard to see the resemblance. National Geographic(Jun 29, 2015) Modern lobopodians are rarely seen forest dwellers called velvet worms. Economist(Jul 02, 2015) n any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms Syn|Hypo|Hyper onychophoran, peripatus Plicatoperipatus jamaicensis a kind of onychophoran arthropod invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin |
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