bamboo worm

bamboo worm
noun
Etymology: so called from the resemblance of the segmentally striped body to a jointed bamboo stalk
: a common slender cylindrical reddish polychaete worm (Clymenella torquata) dwelling in tubes in the littoral zone along the New England coast

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bamboo worm,
a reddish annelid with a membranous collar found along the Atlantic coast between North Carolina and the Bay of Fundy.

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