Velvet Worm (Noun)

Meaning

Any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms.

Classification

Nouns denoting animals.

Synonyms

• Peripatus
• Onychophoran

Hypernyms

• Arthropod

Hyponyms

• Plicatoperipatus Jamaicensis