platyhelminth

1. 1.

   parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body

   Synonymsflatworm

   Broaderworm

   Narrowerplanarianfluketapeworm

   Part ofPlatyhelminthes

   Partsflame cell

Other forms of platyhelminth

plural

platyhelminths·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about platyhelminth

What does platyhelminth mean?

platyhelminth means "parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body".

How many syllables are in platyhelminth?

platyhelminth has 4 syllables: pla-ty-hel-minth. The stress falls on "ty".

What is another word for platyhelminth?

Close synonyms include flatworm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is platyhelminth a common word?

platyhelminth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.