Meanings
adjectivechætophorous (comparative more chætophorous, superlative most chætophorous)
comparative more chætophorous · superlative most chætophorous
- obsoleteObsolete form of chaetophorous.
On the other hand, in the development of a mesoblast which undergoes division into segments, the Leeches exhibit the fundamental character of all such segmented Invertebrates as the chætophorous Annelida and the Arthropoda.
1877, Thomas Henry Huxley, chapter V, in A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals, J. & A. Churchill, page 218
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