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turbellarian

[ tur-buh-lair-ee-uhn ]

adjective

  1. belonging to the Turbellaria, a class of platyhelminths or flatworms, mostly aquatic and having cilia on the body surface.


noun

  1. a turbellarian platyhelminth.

turbellarian

/ ËŒ³Ùɜ˲úɪˈ±ôɛə°ùɪə²Ô /

noun

  1. any typically aquatic free-living flatworm of the class Turbellaria , having a ciliated epidermis and a simple life cycle: includes the planarians
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or belonging to the class Turbellaria
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of turbellarian1

1875–80; < New Latin Turbellari ( a ) ( Latin turbell ( ae ) a stir, row (plural diminutive of turba turmoil) + -Äå°ù¾±²¹, neuter plural of -Äå°ù¾±³Ü²õ -ary ) + -an
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Origin of turbellarian1

C19: from New Latin °Õ³Ü°ù²ú±ð±ô±ôÄå°ù¾±²¹ , from Latin turbellae (pl) bustle, from turba brawl, referring to the swirling motion created in the water
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Example Sentences

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Planarian, plÄ-nÄ′ri-an, adj. and n. a term practically coextensive with Turbellarian, applicable to the members of the lowest class of worm-like animals, living in fresh and salt water, and sometimes in damp earth.—adjs.

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Rhabdite, rab′dīt, n. a smooth, rod-like structure found in the cells of the integument of most turbellarian worms: one of the hard parts composing the ovipositor of some insects.—adj.

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RhabdocÅ“la, rab-dÅ-sē′la, n. a prime division of turbellarian worms.—adjs.

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According to his view, a simple early Turbellarian larva, such as that of Stylochus, most nearly represents for us to-day that ancestor from which Ctenophora and Turbellaria are alike derived.

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The male is about a hundred times smaller than the female, in the respiratory chamber of which it lives as a kind of parasite, and appears, so far as outward shape goes, more like a turbellarian than a gephyrean.

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