BLADDER WORM

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Meaning:

Encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("bladder worm" is a kind of...):

larva (the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose)

Holonyms ("bladder worm" is a member of...):

phylum Platyhelminthes; Platyhelminthes (flatworms)

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