Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various small, chiefly freshwater turbellarian flatworms of the order Tricladida, having soft, broad, ciliated bodies, a three-branched digestive cavity, and the ability to regenerate body parts.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Flat, as a turbellarian; belonging to the Planarida or Dendrocœla. See cut under Dendrocœla.
- n. A member of the suborder Planarida.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of various freshwater flatworms, of the family Planariidae, especially of the genus Planaria.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) One of the Planarida, or Dendrocœla; any turbellarian worm.
WordNet 3.0
- n. free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts
Etymologies
- From New Latin planaria (from Late Latin planarius ("lying on a plane"), from Latin planum) + -an (Wiktionary)
- From New Latin Plānāria, genus name, from feminine of Late Latin plānārius, on level ground, from plānus, flat; see pelə-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And now for something completely different: the land planarian Bipalium adventitium.”
“As usual, I was looking for slugs and snails and there was this planarian crawling around the roots of a tree.”
“I have selected an unfortunate earthworm from the backyard and will be giving it to the planarian soon.”
“Here is a picture I took in the field; the planarian was still on the underside of the log.”
“I wrote about the land planarian Bipalium adventitium in this post.”
“The planarian hasn't eaten for at least about 50 hours.”
“In this picture, the planarian was probably ~4 cm long.”
“Irina adds a piece of flair that looks kind of like a sparkly planarian worm to a baby blue top.”
“Wait, it's not hair, it's planarian flatworms, squirming with an earthy taste oozing down your throat.”
“I was keeping the planarian alive for another science project.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘planarian’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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p is for...
my favorite voiceless bilabial plosive.
panacea, persnickety, panache, provenance, preternatural, penumbra, perfunctory, perspicacity, potentate, pinguid, plainsong, pleonastic and 228 more...
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a blob of glup
invertebrates, mostly
todal, oyster, scallop, fluke, sea squirt, tunicate, abalone, whelk, sponge, planarian, amoeba, nudibranch and 12 more...
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quark, quark, quark!
science words that are fun to say
math, too
"I like to say 'quark'! Quark, quark, quark, quark!" - Hobbesscatological, circadian rhythm, imago, quark, gastrointestinal, phylum, protease inhibitor, trilobite, solar plexus, ratite, strata, quasar and 86 more...
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