Definitions for planarian

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planarian pla·nar·i·an

Spelling: [pluh-nair-ee-uh n]

IPA: /pləˈnɛər i ən/

Planarian is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 176 anagrams from letters in planarian (aaailnnpr).

Definitions for planarian

noun

1. any of various free-swimming, mostly freshwater flatworms of the class Turbellaria, having an undulating or sluglike motion: popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts.

Origin of planarian

1885-60; New Latin Planari(a) a flatworm genus (noun use of feminine of Late Latin plānārius level, on level ground; taken to mean “flat”; see plane¹,

Examples for planarian

These are planarian worms, and though not of prepossessing appearance generally, are extremely interesting animals to study.

Among the lowest forms of worms are the planarian worms, already alluded to as examples of the third grade of animal existence.

The planarian worms that I have just been telling about are monsters.

Instead, much like the planarian cut in halves, it forms a whole animal, half size.

Its like the extra legs and tails on the lizard, and the extra heads on the planarian.

It is now nearly forty years since the presence of chlorophyl in certain species of planarian worms was recognized by Schultze.

Flat against the stone and not easily perceived may be a chiton, a planarian worm, or a nudibranch.