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Meaning of "onychophoran" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ONYCHOPHORAN

From New Latin Onychophora, from Greek onukh- nail, claw + -phore.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ONYCHOPHORAN

onychophoran  [ˌɒnɪˈkɒfərən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ONYCHOPHORAN

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Onychophoran is a noun.
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WHAT DOES ONYCHOPHORAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

onychophoran

Onychophora

The velvet worms are a minor ecdysozoan phylum with ~180 species. These obscurely segmented organisms have tiny eyes, antennae, multiple pairs of legs and slime glands. They have variously been compared to worms with legs, caterpillars and slugs. Most common in tropical regions of the Southern Hemisphere, they prey on smaller animals such as insects, which they catch by squirting an adhesive mucus. In modern zoology, they are particularly renowned for their curious mating behaviour and for bearing live young. The two extant families of velvet worms are Peripatidae and Peripatopsidae. They show a peculiar distribution, with the peripatids being predominantly equatorial and tropical, while the peripatopsids are all found in what used to be Gondwana. Formerly considered part of Tracheata, velvet worms are now considered close relatives of the Arthropoda and Tardigrada, with which they form the taxon Panarthropoda. This makes them of palaeontological interest, as they can help reconstruct the ancestral arthropod.

Definition of onychophoran in the English dictionary

The definition of onychophoran in the dictionary is any wormlike terrestrial invertebrate of the phylum Onychophora, having a segmented body, short unjointed limbs, and breathing by means of tracheae: intermediate in structure and evolutionary development between annelids and arthropods.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ONYCHOPHORAN


Aaron
ˈɛərən
Byron
ˈbaɪərən
Cameron
ˈkæmərən
Charon
ˈkɛərən
ctenophoran
tɪˈnɒfərən
Decameron
dɪˈkæmərən
discophoran
dɪsˈkɒfərən
foraminiferan
fəˌræmɪˈnɪfərən
Honduran
hɒnˈdjʊərən
Huron
ˈhjʊərən
Lutheran
ˈluːθərən
mastigophoran
ˌmæstɪˈɡɒfərən
Myron
ˈmaɪərən
odontophoran
ˌɒdɒnˈtɒfərən
pogonophoran
ˌpəʊɡəˈnɒfərən
poriferan
pɔːˈrɪfərən
rotiferan
rəʊˈtɪfərən
siren
ˈsaɪərən
veteran
ˈvɛtərən
Viren
ˈvɪərən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ONYCHOPHORAN

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WORDS THAT END LIKE ONYCHOPHORAN

Alcoran
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Aran
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Karan
Koran
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Oran
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Saharan
Salvadoran
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Tehran
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Synonyms and antonyms of onychophoran in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «onychophoran» into 25 languages

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75 millions of speakers

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Trends of use of onychophoran

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ONYCHOPHORAN»

The term «onychophoran» is used very little and occupies the 188.441 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ONYCHOPHORAN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about onychophoran

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ONYCHOPHORAN»

Discover the use of onychophoran in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to onychophoran and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Evolutionary Biology – Concepts, Biodiversity, ...
The onychophoran representative Euperipatoides rowelli possesses a tripartite brain. The paucity of discrete axon tracts distinguishes the onychophoran brain from the brains of tetraconates and chilopods but not from chelicerate brains.
Pierre Pontarotti, 2011
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Arthropod Biology and Evolution: Molecules, Development, ...
However, it should be noted that Strausfeld (2012) suggests that the compound eyes are the structures which correspond to the segment associated with the onychophoran jaw, implying that the slime papilla corresponds in position to the ...
Alessandro Minelli, Geoffrey Boxshall, Giuseppe Fusco, 2013
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The Ultrastructure and Phylogeny of Insect Spermatozoa
Similarities between chilopod sperm and those of the onychophoran-annelid assemblage include the elongate spiral nucleus (some oligochaetes, leeches), long spiral acrosome (branchiobdellids, some leeches and onychophorans), and an ...
Barrie Gillean Molyneux Jamieson, 1987
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Issues in Genomics and Non-Human Genetic Research: 2011 Edition
Department of Zoology, Cambridge: Head patterning and Hox gene expression in an onychophoran and its implications for the arthropod head problem Research findings, 'Head patterning and Hox gene expression in an onychophoran and ...
‎2012
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Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History
Second, they must explain how an onychophoran could possess the several pairs of long, pointed, upward-protruding spines that an inversion of Hallucigenia places along the top edge of the animal — for some fossil onychophorans bear ...
Stephen Jay Gould, 2010
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Animal Evolution: Interrelationships of the Living Phyla
2010. Hedgehog signaling regulates segment formation in the annelid Platynereis. Science 329: 339–342. Eriksson, B.J. and Budd, G.E. 2001. Onychophoran cephalic nerves and their bearing on our understanding of head segmentation and ...
Claus Nielsen, 2012
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Issues in Life Sciences: Molecular Biology: 2011 Edition
For more information, contact A. Braband, Institute of Biology, Comparative Zoology, Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. (2010 SEP 28) Humboldt University, Berlin: The mitochondrial genome of the onychophoran Opisthopatus ...
‎2012
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Arthropod Fossils and Phylogeny
New Early Cambrian animal and onychophoran affinities of enigmatic metazoans . Nature 351:225—228. Ramskold, L. and L. Werdelin. 1991. The phylogeny and evolution of some phacopid trilobites. Cladistics 7:29—74. Rhebergen, F. 1990.
Gregory D. Edgecombe, 1998
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo ...
They isolated DNA from these animals and used techniques that enabled them to selectively fish for pieces of Hox gene DNA out of the vast number of genes in the Onychophoran genome. Although Onychophorans have only a few distinct ...
Sean B. Carroll, 2005
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Animal Evolution: Genomes, Fossils, and Trees
In drawings from the early research on the onychophoran Peripatus capensis ( Figure 4.2a), it indeed seems that a large extended blastopore closes laterally and both ends stay open and give rise to the mouth and anus (Balfour, 1883; ...
Maximilian J. Telford, D. Timothy J. Littlewood, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ONYCHOPHORAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term onychophoran is used in the context of the following news items.
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Prehistoric worm with super armor and 30 legs found in China
Collins' Monster is thought to be a distant cousin of the modern velvet worm or the onychophoran, a small animal found in tropical forests. «Delhi Daily News, Jun 15»
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Hallucination? No, this Cambrian period creature was really weird
Reconstruction of the famous Cambrian organism, Hallucigenia sparsa, as an onychophoran (C) Stanton F. Fink on August 5, 2007. «Digital Journal, Jun 15»
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Ancient Fossil Termed 'Evolutionary Misfit' Was An Ancestor Of …
Artist's Reconstruction of a famous Cambrian organism, Hallucigenia sparsa, as an onychophoran. Apokryltaros/Stanton F. Fink/Wikimedia ... «International Business Times, Aug 14»
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Brain of World's First Known Predators Discovered
A side-by-side comparison reveals the similarity between the brain of a living onychophoran (green) and that of the anomalocaridid fossil ... «UANews, Jul 14»
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One of the Planet's First Predators Was a Lot Dumber Than Its Prey
In this research, the brain and neuroanatomical features shared by anomalcoaridids and onychophoran represent an ancestral condition ... «Motherboard, Jul 14»
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Mysterious 500 Million-Year-Old Predators Are the Ancestors of …
And above, you can see a side-by-side comparison of one of the fossils (gray) with a modern arthropod called an onychophoran or velvet worm ... «io9, Jul 14»
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The Creature Feature: 10 Fun Facts About Velvet Worms
Fossil Velvet Worms in Baltic and Dominican Amber: Onychophoran Evolution and Biogeography. Science 273 (5280): 1370–1371. «Wired, Mar 14»
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Climate Change This Week: Browning Dragon, Bright Ideas, and More!
Every day is Earth Day, folks, as I was reminded by this velvet worm (an onychophoran - not your typical worm) that Kenneth Chapin ... «Huffington Post, Jan 13»
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Arthropod relationships revealed by phylogenomic analysis of …
58, 199–210 (2009) | Article | ChemPort |; Podsiadlowski, L., Braband, A. & Mayer, G. The complete mitochondrial genome of the onychophoran ... «Nature.com, Feb 10»
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Reaching creationists: here's the toolbox, do you know how to use …
He doesn't know what you mean by arthropod, let alone onychophoran. Throw articulata, cycloneuralia, and ecdysozoa at him from the abstract ... «ScienceBlogs, Jun 09»

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