heteronereid

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heteronereid (noun; Greek heteros, different; Neris, family Nerididae): (Annelida: Polychaeta) A specialized, free swimming, sexually dimorphic marine worm that gives off sex products into the water and dies after spawning

See also: epitoky.

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