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Pompeii worm

Pompeii worm noun: alvinella pompejana, a deep-sea polychaete worm.

Noun

Pompeii worm (plural Pompeii worms)

  1. Alvinella pompejana, a deep-sea polychaete worm.
    • The two-metre-long tube worms and the smaller Pompeii worms which bathe in scalding temperatures on volcanic vents in the deep ocean, and the bristly Christmas tree worms that achieved fame in impossibly large but otherwise accurate translation to the planet Pandora in the film Avatar2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 88

Forms of Pompeii worm

pluralPompeii worms

Questions about Pompeii worm

What does Pompeii worm mean?
Pompeii worm means alvinella pompejana, a deep-sea polychaete worm.
What part of speech is Pompeii worm?
Pompeii worm is a noun.
What is the plural of Pompeii worm?
The plural of Pompeii worm is Pompeii worms.

Words near Pompeii worm in the dictionary

  1. Pompeian red
  2. Pompeian reds
  3. Pompeiana
  4. Pompeians
  5. Pompeii
  6. Pompeii worm
  7. Pompeii worms
  8. Pompeiian
  9. Pompeiians
  10. Pompeis
  11. Pompeji

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