acanthocephalan

noun

any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines

Roots

akanthaacantho- · Greek · thorn, spine kephalecephal- · Greek · head anus-an · Latin · pertaining to

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