SERPULA

Definition: SERPULA

SERPULA

Noun

1. Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rhyming with "SERPULA"

Words rhyming with "SERPULA" (pronounced 'Ser"pu*la'): Acanthocephala, Acicula, Actinula, Ala, Algarovilla, Alula, Ametabola, Ampulla, Amygdala, Angola, Anopla, Aquila, Archencephala, Archiblastula, Areola, Armilla, Arolla, Artiodactyla, Auricula, Axilla, Baggala, Bandala, Banderilla, Barilla, bengola, Beteela, Blastula, Bulla, Cabala, Cabrilla, Caffila, Calcavella, Calendula, Calla, Camarilla, Campanula, Canella, Cannicula, Cannula, Capella, Capitula, Cappella, Carambola, Cedilla, Cella, Chinchilla, Chrysocolla, Cicala, Claribella, Coccinella. (additional references)

Anagrams: SERPULA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: perusal, pleuras.
	Words within the letters "a-e-l-p-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: lapser, pareus, parles, pauser, pearls, pleura, pulers, pulsar, pulser, saurel.
	-2 letters: apers, apres, arles, asper, aures, earls, lapse, lares, laser, leaps, lears, lures, paler, pales, pares, pareu, parle, parse, pause, peals, pearl, pears, pleas, prase, praus, presa, puler, pules, pulse, purls, purse, rales, rapes, reals, reaps, rules, salep, sepal, seral, slurp, spale.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-l-p-r-s-u"
	+1 letter: earplugs, flareups, graupels, perusals, plaguers, pleasure, purslane, specular, spirulae, superlay, supernal.
	+2 letters: larrupers, peculiars, pleasured, pleasures, plumerias, poulardes, prunellas, purslanes, sporulate, superable, superably, superlain, supermale, superreal, supersale, underlaps, uplanders.
	+3 letters: applauders, curlpapers, operculars, outsparkle, parasexual, parbuckles, peculators, pellagrous, pelycosaur, peninsular, pleasuring, plesiosaur, pluralizes, popularise, prelatures, presageful, presumable, presumably, propagules, psalterium, quadruples, sepulchral, specularly, speculator, sporulated, sporulates, spurgalled, superalloy, superclass, superclean, superflack, superlarge, superlunar, supermales, supernally, superplane, supersales, superscale, supplanter, suprarenal, surplusage, underplays.
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