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Word: Vestimentiferan
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
1980s: from modern Latin Vestimentifera (from Latin vestimentum ‘clothing’ + -fer ‘bearing’) + -an
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˌvɛstɪmɛnˈtɪfərən
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a very large marine worm which lives in upright tubes near hydrothermal vents, subsisting on the products of chemoautotrophic bacteria.
Short Definition:very large marine worm which lives in upright tubes near hydrothermal vents
