Usually means: Marine worm that forms calcareous tubes.
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  1. serpula: Merriam-Webster
  2. Serpula: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. serpula: Collins English Dictionary
  4. serpula: Wordnik
  5. serpula: Wiktionary
  6. Serpula, serpula: Dictionary.com
  7. Serpula (fungus), Serpula: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Serpula: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. serpula: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Serpula: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. serpula: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Serpula: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (serpula)

noun:  (zoology) 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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