peripatus

WORDNET DICTIONARY

peripatus(n = noun.animal) onychophoran, velvet worm - any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms; Array

is a kind of arthropod

is a member of class onychophora, onychophora

has particulars: plicatoperipatus jamaicensis

peripatus, n. [NL., fr. Gr. a walking about.].

A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order Malacopoda. [1913 Webster]

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