sb. and a. Zool. [a. mod.Fr. annélide, f. as next: see -ID.]
A. sb. A member of the division of Annelida; a red-blooded worm.
1834. Sir C. Bell, Hand, 263. These annelides can creep and turn in every direction.
1857. Wood, Obj. Sea-shore, 94. The commonest of the terrestrial annelids is the earth-worm.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Annelida.
1855. Kingsley, Glaucus (1878), 113. Long Annelid worms of quaintest forms and colours.
1872. Bristow, trans. Figuier’s World bef. Del., iv. 101. [No] indications of life, except annelide-tracks and burrows.
