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PLANARIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does planaria mean?
• PLANARIA (noun)
The noun PLANARIA has 1 sense:
1. free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts
Familiarity information: PLANARIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
planaria; planarian
Hypernyms ("planaria" is a kind of...):
flatworm; platyhelminth (parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body)
Holonyms ("planaria" is a member of...):
class Turbellaria; Turbellaria (free-living flatworms)
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