• Polychaeta

    Origin

    From the class name.

    Full definition of polychaeta

    Noun

    polychaeta

    (plural polychaetas or polychaetae)
    1. Any annelid worm of the class Polychaeta
      • September 15, 2015, , Selfies of Imperial Cormorants ( Phalacrocorax atriceps ): What Is Happening Underwater?, The sediment type units used were: predominantly gravel (the most abundant sediment type around Punta León colony ), rocky, characterized by the presence of reefs (i.e. isolated small rocky outcrops that extend no longer that a few metres on a flat bottom ) and grasslike where more than 50% of the seabed was covered by structures such as polychaeta tubes and algae.
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