polychete worm

Questions about polychete worm

What does polychete worm mean?

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

What is another word for polychete worm?

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

polychete 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.