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Acanthocephalan

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Noun

1. acanthocephalan, spiny-headed worm

any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Acanthocephalan

see synonyms of acanthocephalan
noun
1. 
any of the parasitic wormlike invertebrates of the phylum Acanthocephala, the adults of which have a spiny proboscis and live in the intestines of vertebrates
adjective
2. 
of, relating to, or belonging to the Acanthocephala

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Acanthocephalan

see synonyms of acanthocephalan
noun
any of a phylum (Acanthocephala) of intestinal worms, lacking a digestive tract and having a proboscis bearing rows of thornlike hooks

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Acanthocephalan

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n.
See spiny-headed worm.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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