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Definition of Triclad
1. an aquatic flatworm [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Triclad
Literary usage of Triclad
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Course in Invertebrate Zoölogy: A Guide to the Dissection and Comparative by Henry Sherring Pratt (1901)
"... III PLATYHELMINTHES TURBELLARIA A triclad PLANARIAN WORM Planarian worms are
very common animals in freshwater streams and ponds as well as in the sea; ..."
2. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1901)
"But suckers occur, though of a very simple kind, in many Polyclad and several
triclad Turbellaria, and large ones in Temno- cephala, so that even these ..."
3. Life History Studies on Montana Trematodes by Ernest Carroll Faust (1917)
"The digestive tract of the cercariae and the adult hermaphroditic generations of
trematodes is usually triclad. In the redia the gut is ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... or shaped like a tuning fork (triclad). In some of the larger forms it possesses
lateral branches which may ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"... and, after dehydrating, mounting in gum sandarac dissolved in absolute alcohol.
In a second paper, 1. c., p. 178, devoted to a triclad ..."
6. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"Structure of a triclad. 2 (77) Pharynx simple, cask-shaped or rosette-shaped.
Connective tissue of body cavity poorly developed. ..."