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Pompeii worms

Pompeii worms is the plural of Pompeii worm.

Meaning of Pompeii 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

Questions about Pompeii worms

What is Pompeii worms the plural of?
Pompeii worms is the plural of Pompeii worm.

Words near Pompeii worms in the dictionary

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

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