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ACANTHOCEPHALAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines
Synonyms:
acanthocephalan; spiny-headed worm
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("acanthocephalan" is a kind of...):
worm (any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae)
Holonyms ("acanthocephalan" is a member of...):
Acanthocephala; phylum Acanthocephala (phylum or class of elongated wormlike parasites that live in the intestines of vertebrates: spiny-headed worms)
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