planaria

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun planaria has 1 sense

planaria(n = noun.animal) planarian - free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts; Array

is a kind of flatworm, platyhelminth

is a member of class turbellaria, turbellaria

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CIDE DICTIONARY

planaria, n. [NL. See Planary.].

Any species of turbellarian worms belonging to Planaria, and many allied genera. The body is usually flat, thin, and smooth. Some species, in warm countries, are terrestrial. [1913 Webster]

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