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Word of the day: Day 35 Word: Nemathelminthes Word Class: Noun (plural) Pronunciation: Couldn’t find Definition: (medical, zoology) a phylum including the nematodes and horsehair worms and sometimes the acanthocephalans, rotifers, gastrotrichs, and minute marine organisms of a related class (Kinorhyncha) which are all more or less wormlike animals with a cylindrical unsegmented body covered by an ectoderm without cilia that secretes an external cuticle Examples sentence(s): The group has also been considered a single phylum, sometimes given the old name Nemathelminthes. Person who coined: Gegenbaur First known usage (date): 1859? First known usage (which book, poem etc.): (Possibly, I’m not sure) Grundzüge der vergleichenden Anatomie (English: Elements of Comparative Anatomy)? Etymology: (New Latin) nemat + Helminthes Sources: (Remove the spaces for links) The free dictionary (ww w.thefreedictionary.com/Nemathelminthes) Merriam Webster (ww w.merriam-webster.com/medical/Nemathelminthes) Rhymezone (ww w.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?loc=ol_ue&typeofrhyme=wke&Word=nemathelminthes) Embibe (ww w.embibe.com/study/phylum-aschelminthes-concept?entity_code=KTBAK21) Britannica (ww w.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Gegenbaur) Dictionary.com (ww w.dictionary.com/browse/nemathelminth) En academic (medicine.en-academic.com/34357/Nemathelminthes)