polychete worm

Questions about polychete worm

What is another word for polychete worm?

It depends which polychete worm you mean. In the sense “chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles”, the synonyms are polychaete, polychete, polychaete worm. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of polychete worm?

WordNet records no antonym for polychete worm. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for polychete worm come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of polychete worm

• Full entry for polychete wormAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for polychete wormWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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