(n) any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms, Syn. velvet worm, peripatus
n. 1. one of the aplacophora; a deep-water wormlike mollusk lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine limy spicules on the covering mantle. Syn. -- solenogaster [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n. Any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms; a member of the Onychophora, also called Malacopoda. See Malacopoda. Syn. -- velvet worm, peripatus. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]