polyclad

[ pol-ee-klad ]

noun
  1. any free-swimming, marine flatworm of the order Polycladida, having a broad, flat body and a many-branched gastrovascular cavity.

Origin of polyclad

1
1885–90; <New Latin Polycladus genus name <Greek polýklados many-branched. See poly-, clado-

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