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Meaning of serpula | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

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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.

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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