ALL meanings of aschelminth
- noun aschelminth in some systems of classification, any of a phylum (Aschelminthes) of wormlike animals, including rotifers, gastrotrichs, gordian worms, and nematodes: these animals are usually considered to be in separate phyla 3
- noun aschelminth An invertebrate animal belonging to a group of phyla that are distinguished by the lack of a well-developed coelom and blood vessels. Most aschelminths are minute wormlike animals, including the nematode worms, rotifers, and water bears. 1
- noun aschelminth Any of many pseudocoelomates of the former phylum Aschelminthes. 0