Last name origins & meanings: 1  Dutch, North German (Niemann), and Danish: nickname for a newcomer to a place, from nie ânewâ (variant of German neu or Dutch nieuw) + man âmanâ. 2  Dutch, North German (Niemann), and Danish: Perhaps also from niemand ânobodyâ, hence a nickname for an orphan or a person of no account.ast name origins & meanings: 1  Dutch, North German (Niemann), and Danish: nickname for a newcomer to a place, from nie ânewâ (variant of German neu or Dutch nieuw) + man âmanâ. 2  Dutch, North German (Niemann), and Danish: Perhaps also from niemand ânobodyâ, hence a nickname for an orphan or a person of no account.
GCIDE(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: onychophoran(n.) Any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms; a member of the Onychophora, also called Malacopoda. See Malacopoda.
Sea spiders, also called Pantopoda or pycnogonids, ('pycno-' closely packed, 'gonid' gonidia) are marine arthropods of class Pycnogonida. They are cosmopolitan, found especially in the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas, as well as the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans.