platelminto

Definitions of platelminto
  1. noun
    parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body
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    planaria
    free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts
    trematodo
    parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host
    cestodo
    ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates
    solitaria, tenia
    tapeworms parasitic in humans which uses the pig as its intermediate host
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    gusano
    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
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