polychaete worm

Questions about polychaete worm

What does polychaete worm mean?

polychaete worm means "chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles".

What is another word for polychaete worm?

Close synonyms include polychaete, polychete, polychete 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 polychaete worm a common word?

polychaete 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.