PERIPATUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peripatus mean? 

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

1. any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERIPATUS (noun)

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Meaning:

Any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

onychophoran; peripatus; velvet worm

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

arthropod (invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "peripatus"):

Plicatoperipatus jamaicensis (a kind of onychophoran)

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

class Onychophora; Onychophora (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)