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单词 tube worm
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Definition of tube worm in English:

tube worm

noun
  • 1A marine bristle worm, especially a fan worm, which lives in a tube made from sand particles or in a calcareous tube that it secretes.

    龙介虫;缨鳃虫

    Families Serpulidae and Sabellidae, phylum Polychaeta

    Example sentencesExamples
    • During this first dive, the team did discover a garden possibly less than one year old with tiny tube worms, mussels and clams all living together.
    • The baleen acts as a filter or strainer retaining only the food, which the whale maneuvers with its tongue so the gammarid amphipods, tube worms, mollusks, and other bottom invertebrates can be swallowed.
    • Aside from its temporary and permanently resident fish, the underside is decorated with sponges, hydroids, tunicates, tube worms, cup corals and anemones.
    • But he cherishes the occasional feather duster, a small tube worm that opens from live rock or other housing into a red and white umbrella of feathery tentacles, sifting the water for planktonic food.
    • Other types of deep-sea hot spots include hydrothermal vent communities, where specially adapted crabs, clams, and odd-looking tube worms gather around mineral-rich hot springs.
    1. 1.1 A pogonophoran or vestimentiferan worm.
      须腕动物;被套动物
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This food web is taken to the extreme in the Pogonophora tube worms that are found at some vents.
      • The Figueroa assemblage shares gastropods and vestimentiferan tube worms with both modern and other ancient vent communities, but is unique in containing rhynchonellide brachiopods.
      • They are members of the phylum Annelida, the group that includes segmented worms such as leeches, tube worms, and the familiar earthworm.
      • ONE OF the most conspicuous groups of animals living in deep-sea chemosynthetic communities at hydrothermal vents are large vestimentiferan tube worms.
      • The presence of vestimentiferan tube worm fossils in the Figueroa deposit is at odds with the supposed time of origin of the modern vestimentiferans, based on molecular data.

Definition of tube worm in US English:

tube worm

noun
  • 1A marine bristle worm, especially a fan worm, which lives in a tube made from sand particles or in a calcareous tube that it secretes.

    龙介虫;缨鳃虫

    Families Serpulidae and Sabellidae, phylum Polychaeta

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Other types of deep-sea hot spots include hydrothermal vent communities, where specially adapted crabs, clams, and odd-looking tube worms gather around mineral-rich hot springs.
    • But he cherishes the occasional feather duster, a small tube worm that opens from live rock or other housing into a red and white umbrella of feathery tentacles, sifting the water for planktonic food.
    • During this first dive, the team did discover a garden possibly less than one year old with tiny tube worms, mussels and clams all living together.
    • The baleen acts as a filter or strainer retaining only the food, which the whale maneuvers with its tongue so the gammarid amphipods, tube worms, mollusks, and other bottom invertebrates can be swallowed.
    • Aside from its temporary and permanently resident fish, the underside is decorated with sponges, hydroids, tunicates, tube worms, cup corals and anemones.
    1. 1.1 A pogonophoran or vestimentiferan worm.
      须腕动物;被套动物
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They are members of the phylum Annelida, the group that includes segmented worms such as leeches, tube worms, and the familiar earthworm.
      • The presence of vestimentiferan tube worm fossils in the Figueroa deposit is at odds with the supposed time of origin of the modern vestimentiferans, based on molecular data.
      • The Figueroa assemblage shares gastropods and vestimentiferan tube worms with both modern and other ancient vent communities, but is unique in containing rhynchonellide brachiopods.
      • ONE OF the most conspicuous groups of animals living in deep-sea chemosynthetic communities at hydrothermal vents are large vestimentiferan tube worms.
      • This food web is taken to the extreme in the Pogonophora tube worms that are found at some vents.
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