NOUN | animal | acanthocephalan, spiny-headed worm | any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines |
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Meaning | Any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines. | |
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Synonym | spiny-headed worm | |
Member of | Acanthocephala, phylum Acanthocephala | phylum or class of elongated wormlike parasites that live in the intestines of vertebrates |
Broader | worm | Any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla ... / phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes |
Spanish | acantocéfalo | |
Catalan | acantocèfal, acantocéfalo |
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