bristle worm

noun

1. a popular name for a polychaete

Example Sentences

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.

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

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

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

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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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