Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun velvet_worm

1 sense of velvet worm

Sense 1
onychophoran, velvet worm, peripatus -- (any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms)
       => arthropod -- (invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin)