BLADDER WORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bladder worm mean? 

• BLADDER WORM (noun)
  The noun BLADDER WORM has 1 sense:

1. encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm

  Familiarity information: BLADDER WORM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLADDER WORM (noun)

Sense 1

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)