polychaeta

See also: Polychaeta

English

Etymology

From the class name.

Noun

polychaeta (plural polychaetas or polychaetae)

1. Any annelid worm of the class Polychaeta
   • 2015 September 15, “Selfies of Imperial Cormorants ( Phalacrocorax atriceps ): What Is Happening Underwater?”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     The sediment type units used were: predominantly gravel (the most abundant sediment type around Punta León colony [34 ]), rocky, characterized by the presence of reefs (i.e. isolated small rocky outcrops that extend no longer that a few metres on a flat bottom [35 ]) and grasslike where more than 50% of the seabed was covered by structures such as polychaeta tubes and algae.