Definition of Triclad

1. Noun. Any of many flatworms of the order ''Tricladida'' ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Triclad

1. an aquatic flatworm [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Triclad

tricksiest
tricksily
tricksiness
tricksinesses
tricksome
trickster
tricksterish
tricksterism
tricksters
tricksy
tricktrack
tricky
tricky slave
tricky slaves
triclabendazole
triclad (current term)
triclads
triclavianism
triclavianist
triclavianists
triclinate
triclinia
tricliniary
triclinic
triclinium
triclocarban
triclofenol piperazine
triclofos
triclopyr

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. ..."

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