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echiuroid, a. and n.|ɛkɪˈjʊərɔɪd|
[f. mod.L. Echiurus, generic name, f. Gr. ἔχις adder + οὐρά tail + -oid.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to marine worms of the phylum Echiuroidea or genus Echiurus.
B. n. A member of this phylum or genus. So echiˈurian, echiˈurid.
1886Jrnl. R. Microsc. Soc. Dec. 984 The armed Gephyrea or Echiuroids. Ibid. 985 The nerve-trunk has in adult Echiurians lost all trace of segmentation. 1897Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. Dec. 367 A new British Echiuroid Gephyrean. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 625/2 The female [of Bonellia] has the normal Echiuroid structure. 1909Jrnl. R. Microsc. Soc. 50 New Deep-sea Echiurid. 1941J. Steinbeck Log from Sea of Cortez (1958) 273 Echiuroid, a worm-like animal related to the sipunculids. 1967P. A. Meglitsch Invertebrate Zool. xv. 646/2 Echiuroid nephridia are much like the nephridia of sipunculids. Ibid. 648/1 The sedentary life of the echiuroids is reflected in the simplicity of the neuro-sensory equipment. |