Turbellarian meaning

tûr'bə-lâr'ē-ən
Any of various free-living chiefly aquatic ciliate flatworms, including the planarians.
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Any of a class (Turbellaria) of flatworms, mostly aquatic and nonparasitic, characterized by a leaf-shaped body covered with many cilia.
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Any of various free-living chiefly aquatic ciliate flatworms, including the planarians.
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(biology) Any flatworm of the class Turbellaria.
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Characteristic of these creatures.
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Origin of turbellarian

  • From New Latin Turbellāria class name from Latin turbella bustle diminutive of turba turmoil (from the motion of their cilia in the water) turbid
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From New Latin turbellaria (from Latin turbellae (“bustle"), from turba (“confusion")) +"Ž -an
    From Wiktionary

Turbellarian Sentence Examples

  • We homologize the rotifer with the Turbellarian larva (fig.

  • Stannius renovated the group Vermes of Linnaeus, and placed in it the Chaetopods and the parasitic worms of Cuvier, besides the Rotifers and Turbellarian worms.1 The result of the knowledge gained in the last quarter of the 19th century has been to discredit altogether the group Vermes (see Worm), thus set up and so largely accepted by German writers even at the present day.

  • Burger even goes so far as to homologize the proboscis with the Turbellarian " Einige Bemerkungen zur Metamorphose des Pilidium," Archir far Naturgeschichte (1873); L.

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