APLACOPHORAN

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Meaning:

Deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle

Synonyms:

aplacophoran; solenogaster

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Nouns denoting animals

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

gastropod; univalve (a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes)

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

Aplacophora; order Aplacophora; order Solenogastres; Solenogastres (an order of Amphineura)