serpula
The English word “serpula” has 1 meaning listed here.
noun
- Any of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae that secrete a calcareous tube, usually irregularly contorted, but sometimes spirally coiled, with a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin serpula. See serpent.
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