Microdrile

Quick meaning: Microdrile is a noun meaning Any relatively small, generally aquatic, oligochaete, a member of a sometimes used size-based division of the class Oligochaeta.

Meaning

Any relatively small, generally aquatic, oligochaete, a member of a sometimes used size-based division of the class Oligochaeta.

Example Sentences

In microdriles the circular muscle is generally only weakly developed.

Microdriles in our subcontinent are represented by three families of aquatic oligochaetes namely Naididae, Tubificidae and Phraeodrilidae, and terrestrial pot worms of the Enchytraeidae.

Before the study was begun, the known oligochaete fauna of Tasmania consisted of six species of aquatic microdriles, twenty-three indigenous species of megascolecid earthworms, and introduced earthworms of the family Lumbricidae.

Word Forms

• microdriles

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include microchlorophyte, microconchid, enchytraeid, oligotrichid, oligochete, microphyte.

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