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PLATYHELMINTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body
Synonyms:
flatworm; platyhelminth
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("platyhelminth" is a kind of...):
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)
Meronyms (parts of "platyhelminth"):
flame cell (organ of excretion in flatworms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "platyhelminth"):
planaria; planarian (free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts)
fluke; trematode; trematode worm (parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host)
cestode; tapeworm (ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates)
Holonyms ("platyhelminth" is a member of...):
phylum Platyhelminthes; Platyhelminthes (flatworms)
