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    PLATYHELMINTH

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened bodyplay

    Synonyms:

    flatworm; platyhelminth

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    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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