annelid

English

Etymology

From French annélidé, coined by French naturalist Lamarck.

Noun

annelid (plural annelids)

1. Any of various wormlike animals, of the phylum Annelida, having a segmented body; they include the earthworm and the leech.

   Synonyms: ringed worm, segmented worm

   • 1990 April 1, Pete Dunne, “IN THE NATURAL STATE”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Incarcerated in earth-filled boxes, the hapless annelids face execution in the morning. Death by immersion in fishponds, death by cruel hooks.

   • 2015 September 4, Kondethimmanahalli H. Chandramouli, Donald Reish, Huoming Zhang, Pei-Yuan Qian & Timothy Ravasi, “Proteomic Changes Associated with Successive Reproductive Periods in Male Polychaetous Neanthes arenaceodentata”, in Scientific Reports, →DOI:

     The polychaetous annelid species complex of Neanthes acuminata has a widespread distribution, with names depending on geographic location.

Derived terms

• annelidan
• annelidous
• annepressin
• annetocin

 

Translations

annelid

• Catalan: anèl·lid m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 環節動物／环节动物 (zh) (huánjiédòngwù)

• Czech: kroužkovec m
• Danish: ledorm c
• Esperanto: anelido
• Finnish: nivelmato (fi)
• French: annélide (fr) m, annélidé m
• Galician: anélido (gl) m
• German: Ringelwurm m; Anneliden pl (in plural)
• Greek: δακτυλοειδής σκώληκας m (daktyloeidís skólikas)
• Hindi: वलयिन ? (valyin)
• Hungarian: gyűrűsféreg (hu)
• Ido: anelido (io)
• Irish: anailid f
• Italian: anellide (it) m
• Japanese: 環形動物 (ja) (kankei-dōbutsu), 環節動物 (ja) (kansetsu-dōbutsu)
• Polish: pierścienica f
• Portuguese: anelídeo (pt) m
• Russian: аннели́д m (annelíd), ко́льчатый червь (ru) m (kólʹčatyj červʹ)
• Slovene: kolobarnik m, anelid m
• Spanish: anélido m
• Swedish: ringmask c
• Tagalog: ugnaykatwan

Adjective

annelid (not comparable)

1. of, or relating to these creatures

Anagrams

• Nieland, lindane