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peripatids

peripatids is the plural of peripatid.

Meaning of peripatid

Noun

peripatid (plural peripatids)

  1. A velvet worm of the family Peripatidae.
    • Peripatids were already in South-East Asia in the early Cretaceous, and had made the journey the long, early way through Europe, rather than rafting in on India, and subsequently went extinct in the rest of Laurasia.2016 October 12, Susannah Lydon, “How did the velvet worm cross the world? The answer lies in amber”, in The Guardian

Questions about peripatids

What is peripatids the plural of?
Peripatids is the plural of peripatid.

Words near peripatids in the dictionary

  1. peripateticisms
  2. peripatetick
  3. peripateticks
  4. peripatetics
  5. peripatid
  6. peripatids
  7. peripatopsid
  8. peripatopsids
  9. peripatric
  10. peripatry
  11. peripatus

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