beard worm

1. 1.

   slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering; lives on the deep ocean bottom

   Synonymspogonophoran

   Broaderworm

   Part ofPogonophora

Questions about beard worm

What does beard worm mean?

beard worm means "slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering; lives on the deep ocean bottom".

What is another word for beard worm?

Close synonyms include pogonophoran. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beard worm a common word?

beard worm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.