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maldanid

maldanid noun: any polychete worm of the family Maldanidae.

Noun

maldanid (plural maldanids)

  1. Any polychete worm of the family Maldanidae.
    • Those that were found were mostly deep species not present shallower (e.g. loveniid heart urchins and species of lysianassid amphipods and among the polychaetes, the amphinomid Linopherus sp., the maldanid Axiothella sp., the opheliid Antiobactrum sp. and the spionid Aurospio sp.)2015 December 1, “Macrofaunal Patterns in and around du Couedic and Bonney Submarine Canyons, South Australia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of maldanid

pluralmaldanids

Questions about maldanid

What does maldanid mean?
Maldanid means any polychete worm of the family Maldanidae.
What part of speech is maldanid?
Maldanid is a noun.
What is the plural of maldanid?
The plural of maldanid is maldanids.

Words near maldanid in the dictionary

  1. mald
  2. Malda
  3. Malda division
  4. Maldah
  5. Maldaha
  6. maldanid
  7. maldanids
  8. malded
  9. Malden
  10. maldeployment
  11. malder

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