onychophora

1. 1.

   enigmatic small elongated wormlike terrestrial invertebrates of damp dark habitats in warm regions; distinct from the phylum Annelida; resemble slugs with legs and are sometimes described as the missing link between arthropods and annelids

   Synonymsclass Onychophora

   Broaderclass

   Part ofArthropoda

Other forms of onychophora

plural

onychophoras·

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 onychophora

What does onychophora mean?

onychophora means "enigmatic small elongated wormlike terrestrial invertebrates of damp dark habitats in warm regions; distinct from the phylum Annelida; resemble slugs with legs and are sometimes described as the missing link between arthropods and annelids".

How many syllables are in onychophora?

onychophora has 5 syllables: o-ny-cho-pho-ra. The stress falls on "cho".

What is another word for onychophora?

Close synonyms include class Onychophora. 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 onychophora a common word?

onychophora 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.