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bristle worm

noun

  1. a popular name for a polychaete
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Scientists are amazed at the discovery of a bristle worm with such sharp-seeing eyes that they can measure up to those of mammals and octopuses.

He was hooked as soon as his colleague Michael Bok at Lund University showed him a recording of the bristle worm.

The Vanadis bristle worm has eyes as big as millstones -- relatively speaking.

And it was this combination of factors about the Vanadis bristle worm that really caught Anders Garm's attention.

The marine bristle worm Platynereis dumerilii, for example, employs a special Cry protein designated L-Cry to distinguish between sunlight and moonlight as well as between different moon phases.

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