How to Use flatworm in a Sentence

flatworm

noun

• Researchers say the blue-green flatworm may have come from Mozambique.
  — The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 7 Feb. 2022
• So a group of scientists turned to a not-so-human species for clues: flatworms.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 13 June 2017
• The research has echoes of studies from the 1960s involving flatworms.
  — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 15 May 2018
• But regeneration of the telencephalon calls on stem cells to save the day, just like the flatworm.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2023
• The researchers hope that the flatworm experiment marks only the first of many such research projects.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2017
• For almost twenty years, a specter has been haunting France: flatworms.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 23 May 2018
• Some species of flatworm engage in this duel to see who can inseminate the other.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020
• With the camera on, doctors immediately found the source of the problem: Large flatworms were seen spilling out of the bile duct into the small intestine.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2019
• Euhaplorchis californiensis, for one, is a trematode flatworm that, in its larval stage, looks a bit like a sperm, with a big head and long tail.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2022
• But True or Poo? covers a larger range of subjects, from the fact that flatworms fight each other with their genitalia (true) to the myth that camels store water in their humps (poo).
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 21 Oct. 2018
• In nature, the organisms that exhibit it are thought to be in other groups only, like flatworms.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 30 Dec. 2019
• Justine and his colleagues do not yet know how the influx of hammerhead flatworms is impacting France’s soils.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 26 May 2018
• Japanese knotweed and New Zealand flatworms are cited as threats.
  — Bloomberg.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• That’s because another predator has moved in: New Guinea flatworms.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2023
• The human eye, Darwin argued, could have evolved from a simple light-catching patch of tissue of the kind that animals such as flatworms grow today.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 July 2013
• Measuring more than 1 foot in length and sometimes as much as 18 inches, the flatworms have heads similar to hammerhead sharks, the study noted.
  — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 23 May 2018
• The process starts all over again, as the birds' intestinal tract provides a space for the flatworm to reproduce and enter another unsuspecting host.
  — Fox News, 16 Aug. 2019
• Plants, roundworms, flatworms and insects use RNA to carry signals through their tissues, and perhaps further.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2013
• This amazing ability of the flatworm to regrow a missing head and to produce a brain on demand has now been traced back to a key gene, researchers report in a PloS Geneticsstudy.
  — Smriti Rao, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2010
• At a school biology club meeting, Polyak cut up flatworms called planaria and watched their heads and tails regenerate.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 17 May 2023
• Just as hammerhead sharks cruise through lagoons, hammerhead flatworms hunt through soil.
  — Ben Guarino, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2018
• The parasite, the lancet liver fluke, is a flatworm that jumps between different animal species to complete its life cycle.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2018
• Hammerhead flatworms—so named for their weird, broad heads—are predatory critters that feast on earthworms and, sometimes, on one another.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 26 May 2018
• By sampling water from PVC pipes drilled into the ground beneath the ice, the scientists found evidence of of flatworms, stoneflies and other small creatures eaten by grayling and other fish.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2018
• For instance, he’s shown that flatworms that have had their bioelectricity tampered with can be coaxed to regenerate themselves with two heads.
  — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 12 June 2017
• The flatworm begins its life in a snail, then moves into a California killifish, then to its final destination in the gut of a predatory water bird, such as a heron or egret.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2022
• The creatures are also are known to host blood flukes—or parasitic flatworms—that can infect endangered loggerhead sea turtles.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2017
• Space had permanently altered this flatworm's body plan.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 13 June 2017
• After years ofd scattered claims, scientists have confirmed that the nation is indeed infested with hammerhead flatworms and has been for nearly two decades.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 23 May 2018
• This giant invasive flatworm, a Diversibipalium 'blue,' made its way to a French territory off Africa.
  — Lauren Sigfusson, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2018

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024