onychophora
IPA: ˈɑnɪkoʊfɝʌ
Root Word: Onychophora
noun
- Onychophora (from , , "claws"; and , , "to carry"), commonly known as velvet worms (due to their velvety texture and somewhat wormlike appearance) or more ambiguously as peripatus (after the first described genus, Peripatus), is a phylum of elongate, soft-bodied, many-legged panarthropods.
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Examples of "onychophora" in Sentences
- Onychophora will eat and reuse any dried slime.
- Onychophora are the only organisms known to produce this latter substance.
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