FLATWORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flatworm mean? 

• FLATWORM (noun)
  The noun FLATWORM has 1 sense:

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLATWORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

flatworm; platyhelminth

Hypernyms ("flatworm" 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 "flatworm"):

flame cell (organ of excretion in flatworms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flatworm"):

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 ("flatworm" is a member of...):

phylum Platyhelminthes; Platyhelminthes (flatworms)