a. Zool. [f. Gr. χαίτη hair, mane + -φορ-ος bearing + -OUS: after mod.L. chætophora.] Bristle-bearing; applied to ‘the Annelids which have bristle-bearing foot-tubercles, such as tube-worms and sand-worms; and also those which have locomotive bristles, such as earth-worms’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., v. 218. Leeches exhibit the fundamental character of all such segmented Invertebrates as the chætophorous Annelida and the Arthropoda.
