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arrowworm

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arrowworm [ˈærəʊˌwɜːm]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any small marine invertebrate of the genus Sagitta, having an elongated transparent body with fins and prehensile oral bristles: phylum Chaetognatha (chaetognaths)
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Noun1.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


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