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Planaria

noun
(pl. L. planariae, E. planarias)
1.
Free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts.  Synonym: planarian.





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"Planaria" Quotes from Famous Books



... was enabled to make were almost exclusively confined to the invertebrate animals. The existence of a division of the genus Planaria, which inhabits the dry land, interested me much. These animals are of so simple a structure, that Cuvier has arranged them with the intestinal worms, though never found within the bodies of other animals. Numerous species ...
— The Voyage of the Beagle • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Planaria" :   flatworm, Turbellaria, planarian, class Turbellaria, platyhelminth


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