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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PLATYELMINTHES

Plat `y *el *min "thes, n. pl. Etym: [NL. See Platy-, and Helminthes. ](Zoöl.)

 

Defn: A class of helminthes including the cestodes, or tapeworms, the trematodes, and the turbellarians. Called also flatworms.