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polyclad

[pol-ee-klad]
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noun
  1. any free-swimming, marine flatworm of the order Polycladida, having a broad, flat body and a many-branched gastrovascular cavity.
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Origin of polyclad

1885–90; < New Latin Polycladus genus name < Greek polýklados many-branched. See poly-, clado-
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