planaria

Definitions


[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- A genus of planarians found in freshwater and moist terrestrial habitats.


Phrases:

Origin:
early 19th century; earliest use found in John Mason Good (1764–1827), physician and surgeon. From scientific Latin Planaria, genus name, use as noun of feminine of post-classical Latin planarius (adjective), properly ‘on level ground’, but taken to mean ‘flat’




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