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PLATYHELMINTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does platyhelminth mean? 

PLATYHELMINTH (noun)
  The noun PLATYHELMINTH has 1 sense:

1. parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened bodyplay

  Familiarity information: PLATYHELMINTH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PLATYHELMINTH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

flatworm; platyhelminth

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)


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