Spio

noun

ˈspī(ˌ)ō

: a widely distributed genus (the type of the family Spionidae) of small burrowing marine polychaete worms without tentacles or palps but with enlarged dorsal cirri acting as gills

Word History

Etymology

New Latin Spion-, Spio, perhaps from Latin Spio, one of the Nereids, from Greek Speiō

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