oligochaete

1. 1.

   hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body

   Synonymsoligochaete worm

   Broaderannelid

   Narrowerearthworm

   Part ofOligochaeta

Other forms of oligochaete

plural

oligochaetes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about oligochaete

What does oligochaete mean?

oligochaete means "hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body".

How many syllables are in oligochaete?

oligochaete has 5 syllables: o-li-go-cha-ete. The stress falls on "go".

What is another word for oligochaete?

Close synonyms include oligochaete worm. 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 oligochaete a common word?

oligochaete 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.