flatworm

IPA: fɫˈætwɝm

Any of very many parasitic or free-living worms, of the phylum Platyhelminthes, having a flattened body with no skeleton or body cavity.

Examples of "flatworm" in Sentences

Nautilus ... has an eye that is intermediate in quality between flatworm and human.
A flatworm has an eye that, by any sensible measure, is less than half a human eye.
The color of the flatworm is a very dark brown and the stomach with a thin pale line.
Schistosomiasis is caused by the larvae of a flatworm which is released into water by infected snails.
The flatworm is the simplest living multicellular animal to have bilateral symmetry, and its primeval ancestors must have been the first to develop this.
Unlike the flatworm eye, which can detect light and shade but see no image, the Nautilus 'pinhole camera' eye makes a real image; but it is a blurred and dim image compared to ours.
The study also concluded that the combination of atrazine and phosphate--widely used in fertilizer for corn and sorghum production--significantly increased the presence of the flatworm; and
Or of the Spirometra mansoni, commonly called a flatworm, which can grow up to fourteen inches long and take up residence in your brain, where it feeds upon your cerebral matter until you are reduced to a vegetative state?
Another study, which found that atrazine is a strong predictor of parasitic flatworm larvae in frogs, which can cause severe limb deformities and kidney damage to amphibians, including in declining populations of northern leopard frogs.