| NOUN | animal | platyhelminth, flatworm | parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body |
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| Meaning | Parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body. | |
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| Synonym | flatworm | |
| Member of | Platyhelminthes, phylum Platyhelminthes | flatworms |
| Parts | flame cell | organ of excretion in flatworms |
| Narrower | fluke, trematode, trematode worm | Parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host |
| planarian, planaria | free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms | |
| tapeworm, cestode | ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates | |
| Broader | worm | Any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla ... / phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes |
| Spanish | platelminto, platelmintos, platyhelminthes | |
| Catalan | platelminto, platihelmint, platihelmints | |
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