ONYCHOPHORA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Onychophora mean? 

• ONYCHOPHORA (noun)
  The noun ONYCHOPHORA has 1 sense:

1. enigmatic small elongated wormlike terrestrial invertebrates of damp dark habitats in warm regions; distinct from the phylum Annelida; resemble slugs with legs and are sometimes described as the missing link between arthropods and annelids

  Familiarity information: ONYCHOPHORA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONYCHOPHORA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enigmatic small elongated wormlike terrestrial invertebrates of damp dark habitats in warm regions; distinct from the phylum Annelida; resemble slugs with legs and are sometimes described as the missing link between arthropods and annelids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

class Onychophora; Onychophora

Hypernyms ("Onychophora" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Onychophora"):

onychophoran; peripatus; velvet worm (any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms)

family Peripatidae; Peripatidae; family Peripatopsidae; Peripatopsidae (a family of Onychophora)

Holonyms ("Onychophora" is a member of...):

Arthropoda; phylum Arthropoda (jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes)