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bristle worm

British  

noun

  1. a popular name for a polychaete

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He was hooked as soon as his colleague Michael Bok at Lund University showed him a recording of the bristle worm.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024

And it was this combination of factors about the Vanadis bristle worm that really caught Anders Garm's attention.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024

Scientists are amazed at the discovery of a bristle worm with such sharp-seeing eyes that they can measure up to those of mammals and octopuses.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024

The marine bristle worm Platynereis dumerilii, for example, employs a special Cry protein designated L-Cry to distinguish between sunlight and moonlight as well as between different moon phases.

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2023

Ramisyllis is a bristle worm that lives inside the water passages of a sponge called Petrosia in a shallow reef off the coast of northern Australia.

From Scientific American • Aug. 8, 2021

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