plat•y•hel•minth
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Noun |
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platyhelminth - parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body | ||
flatworm | ||
worm any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae | ||
phylum platyhelminthes, platyhelminthes flatworms | ||
flame cell organ of excretion in flatworms | ||
planaria, planarian free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts | ||
trematode, trematode worm, fluke parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host |