tube worm

British  

noun

1. any of various polychaete worms that construct and live in a tube made of sand, lime, etc

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Example Sentences

Scientists photographed and filmed what looked like fields of marine life - dominated by various different types of tube worm and mollusc.

From BBC

Such tube worm colonies have been documented in the Gulf of Mexico on the steel luxury yacht Anona.

From Salon

At first, Figgener and the other scientists onboard speculated that the object could be a barnacle or a tube worm.

From National Geographic

Higley recommends a 45-minute tour of the center’s exhibits, where visitors can observe a tube worm retreat into its shell, let an anemone latch onto their hand with its tentacles, or stand beneath the belly of a gray whale skeleton that spans 38 feet.

From Seattle Times

Last month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported explorers found a type of foot-long marine tube worm living on a part of the seafloor off North Carolina where methane gas seeps from the earth.

From Seattle Times