Crossword-Solution: ARENICOLA 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

There is no _à priori_ improbability in such a belief, for besides other annelids, especially the _Arenicola marina_, which throws up such a profusion of castings on our tidal sands, and which it is believed thus subsists, there are animals belonging to the most distinct classes, which do not burrow, but habitually swallow large quantities of sand; namely, the molluscan Onchidium and many Echinoderms.

Etym: [1st lug + worm.] (Zoöl.) Defn: A large marine annelid (Arenicola marina) having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back.

The Curlew, when surprised, utters a cry with which most of us, I suppose, are familiar; but when with lowered head it drives away another individual from the feeding ground, it gives expression to its feelings by a low, raucous sound, which again is different from its cry when a Common Gull steals the _arenicola_ that has been drawn out of the mud with such labour.

Here, at low water, they find an abundant supply of food--crustaceans amongst the sea-weed upon the rocks, and lobworms (_Arenicola piscatorum_) in the mud as the tide advances or recedes.

The Polychaeta, however, present us with another form of nephridium seen, for example, in _Arenicola_, where a large funnel leads into a short and wide excretory tube whose lumen is intercellular.