chætophorous

See also: chaetophorous

English

Adjective

chætophorous (comparative more chætophorous, superlative most chætophorous)

1. Obsolete form of chaetophorous.
   • 1877, Thomas Henry Huxley, chapter V, in A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals, J. & A. Churchill, page 218:

     On the other hand, in the development of a mesoblast which undergoes division into segments, the Leeches exhibit the fundamental character of all such segmented Invertebrates as the chætophorous Annelida and the Arthropoda.