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PRONUNCIATION OF TUBE WORM

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TUBE WORM

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Tube worm is a noun.
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WHAT DOES TUBE WORM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

tube worm

Tube worm

A tube worm is any worm-like sessile invertebrate that anchors its tail to an underwater surface and secretes around its body a mineral tube, into which it can withdraw its entire body. Tube worms are found among the following taxa: ▪ Annelida ▪ Polychaetea ▪ Canalipalpata ▪ Siboglinidae ▪ Riftia pachyptila ▪ Lamellibrachia ▪ Serpulidae ▪ Sabellidae ▪ The phylum Phoronida ▪ The order Microconchida...

Definition of tube worm in the English dictionary

The definition of tube worm in the dictionary is any of various polychaete worms that construct and live in a tube made of sand, lime, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TUBE WORM

tube
tube fly
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tube station
tube top
tube train
tube-like
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tubeful
tubeless
tubeless tyre
tubenose
tuber
tuberaceous
tubercle
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tubercled
tubercula
tubercular
tubercular meningitis

WORDS THAT END LIKE TUBE WORM

acorn worm
African army worm
army worm
bladder worm
bristle worm
caddis worm
fall army worm
fan worm
Guinea worm
horsehair worm
measuring worm
mopani worm
nematode worm
palmer worm
palolo worm
ribbon worm
stomach worm
tongue worm
vinegar worm
white worm
worm

Synonyms and antonyms of tube worm in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «tube worm» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TUBE WORM

Find out the translation of tube worm to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tube worm from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tube worm» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

管虫
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gusano de tubo
570 millions of speakers

English

tube worm
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ट्यूब कीड़ा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أنبوب دودة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

трубка червь
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

verme
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

টিউব কীট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tube de ver
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cacing tiub
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Röhrenwurm
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

チューブワーム
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

튜브 웜
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cacing tabung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ống sâu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குழாய் புழு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ट्यूब कृमि
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tüp solucanı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

verme
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

robak rury
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

трубка черв´як
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tub vierme
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σωλήνα σκουλήκι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tube wurm
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

röret mask
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tube orm
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tube worm

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TUBE WORM»

The term «tube worm» is normally little used and occupies the 131.091 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TUBE WORM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tube worm» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tube worm» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TUBE WORM»

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Life in the Chesapeake Bay
Sandbuilder Worm, Sabellaria vulgaris (to 1"l, growing over white tube of limy tube worm Common worms of the oyster bars include the oyster mud worm, which builds its tubes within the shell's edge, forming characteristic black blisters, and ...
Alice Jane Lippson, 1997
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Living Fossils
My favorite is this "Christmas Tree" tube worm (top right) which I photographed in the U.S. Virgin Islands off of St. John. The Christmas Trees are the only visible part of the tube worm. The rest of the worm, the casing, is buried in the coral (right ).
Carl Werner, 2009
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Management of Wildlife and Fish Habitats in Forests of ...
... Giese and Pearse 1975 POBR 1-C tube worm Fauchald and Jumars 1 979, Giese and Pearse 1 975, Hartman 1 968, Rudy and Rudy 1979 STBE 1-C tube worm Fauchald and Jumars 1 979, Gavin and MacDonald 1 977, Giese and Pearse ...
E. Reade Brown, 1985
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International Wildlife Encyclopedia: Tree squirrel - water ...
Of the many marine worms that live in tubes, Chaetopterus, the parchment-tube worm or tubeworm, is probably the most remarkable. Other tube-dwelling worms use sand grains or other hard materials to make their tubes. The tubeworm uses  ...
‎2002
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Between Pacific Tides
A smaller tube worm, Marphysa stylobranchiata, occurs in under-rock chitinous tubes much like those of Eudistylia but considerably smaller, and has two big head palps projecting from the tube in place of the great sabellid's tentacular crown.
Edward Flanders Ricketts, David W. Phillips, 1985
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CliffsTestPrep Nursing School Entrance Exam
There are two species of the tube worm family, with very different lengths of life and growth rates, but similarities as well. The slow-growing tube worms are known to live as long as 250 years, making them the longest-living sea invertebrates ...
Fred N Grayson, 2011
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The Social Biology of Microbial Communities:: Workshop Summary
... of Vent Vestimentiferan Tube Worms Via PCR and Sequence Analyses of Biofilmsa PCR amplificationb Bacteria Tube Time of collection and type of deployment Total no. of blocksd positive control worm symbiont Tube worm host Sequence ...
Institute of Medicine, Board on Global Health, Forum on Microbial Threats, 2012
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CliffsTestPrep PCAT: 5 Practice Tests
two species of the tube worm family, with very different lengths of life and growth rates, but similarities as well. The slow-growing tube worms are known to live as long as 250 years, making them the longest-living sea invertebrates known.
American BookWorks Corporation, 2011
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Exploring the Ocean Depths: The Final Frontier
Each tube worm has a plume — a bright red tip that it waves out the top of its tube . The worms' white, tubular homes are made of a tough, natural material called chitin, the same substance from which lobster shells are formed. Tube worms ...
Peter Jedicke, 2003
10
Field & Stream
... HOLE: CEMENT END OF TUBE THREAD NIGHT CRAWLER COMPLETELY ON TO TUBE UNTIL END OF TUBE PROTRUDES HOLD LINE TIGHT AGAINST HANDLE PLACE HOOK POINT IN END OF TUBE WORM PASSES OVER BEND  ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TUBE WORM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tube worm is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tidepool wonder: Kachemak Bay low tide reveals richness in color, life
Crimson tufts erupt from the ends of tangled white tubes. ... It's tube worm world!" A hundred tube worms cowed, we slither down into the cool, slimy crack ... «Alaska Dispatch News, Jul 15»
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Tube Worm Larvae Use Prickly Bacterial Flowers to Choose a Home
Hydroides elegans is not one of those tube worms you've heard about — the giant ones with the lurid red bodies that grow around sexy hydrothermal vents ... «Scientific American, May 15»
3
Ever wondered which animals are the toughest?
Giant tube worm. Growing up to six feet long, the giant tube worm lives on the pitch-black floor of the Pacific Ocean a mile or more below the surface. It is found ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»
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A Little Vitamin B Is All That Makes This Worm Glow Bright Green
... result of some wild nuclear accident, but in fact this worm is perfectly healthy. ... B—riboflavin to be precise—which causes the parchment tube worm to glow. «Gizmodo, Nov 13»
5
Tube worm lights up the undersea night with vitamin B
This is not a fight with light sabres or a biological sample made visible with glowing dye. It's a real living phenomenon: this parchment tube worm's whole body ... «New Scientist, Nov 13»
6
Worm's Mysterious Blue Slime Decoded?
A full-body fluorescence image of the parchment tube worm. Photograph courtesy Dimitri Deheyn, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. «National Geographic, Nov 13»
7
Ocean glow sticks: Scientists shed light on why sea worm illuminates
One common sea worm has a rather uncommon trick: Chaeteopterus variopedatus– also known as the parchment tube worm for the paperlike tubes it builds for ... «NBCNews.com, Nov 13»
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Deep-Sea Worms Can't Take the Heat
Hot pink tube worms living on scalding deep-sea hydrothermal vents actually like to keep things relatively cool, according to a study published today (May 29) in ... «LiveScience.com, May 13»
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Drilling Into the History of Tube Worms
Caption: Holes drilled into the tubes of the worm Ditrupa arietina. A shows a complete tube, while J and K show tubes which fractured along the drilled holes. «Wired News, Apr 12»
10
Weird Deep-Sea Worms Discovered in Caribbean
An expedition to explore the bottom of the sea has glimpsed tube worms living near hydrothermal vents, the first time the bizarre creatures have been seen in the ... «LiveScience.com, Sep 11»

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