TREMATODA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Trematoda mean? 

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

1. parasitic flatworms (including flukes)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREMATODA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Parasitic flatworms (including flukes)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

class Trematoda; Trematoda

Hypernyms ("Trematoda" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Trematoda"):

helminth; parasitic worm (worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes)

fluke; trematode; trematode worm (parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host)

cercaria (tadpole-shaped parasitic larva of a trematode worm; tail disappears in adult stage)

family Fasciolidae; Fasciolidae; family Schistosomatidae; Schistosomatidae (a family of Trematoda)

Holonyms ("Trematoda" is a member of...):

phylum Platyhelminthes; Platyhelminthes (flatworms)