Arrowworm

Ar´row`worm`

n.

1.

(Zool.) A peculiar transparent worm of the genus Sagitta, living at the surface of the sea. See Sagitta.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

arrowworm - any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth chaetognath worm - any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae Chaetognatha, phylum Chaetognatha - arrowworms: a group of small active transparent marine worms sagitta - any arrowworm of the genus Sagitta