The flatworms, or Platyhelminthes, Plathelminthes, or platyhelminths (from the Greek ÏÎ»Î±ÏÏ, platy, meaning flat and á¼Î»Î¼Î¹Î½Ï (root: á¼Î»Î¼Î¹Î½Î¸-), helminth- , meaning worm) are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates.hey have about 11,000 species, more than all other platyhelminthes combined, and second only to roundworms among parasites on metazoans. Adults usually have two holdfasts, a ring around the mouth and a larger sucker midway along what would be the underside in a free-living flatworm.
square root. (MATHEMATICS) each positive number has another number that, when multiplied times itself, equals that number. So, for example, 4 has a square root of 2 (2 x 2 = 4). The square root of a negative number is an imaginary number. Imaginary numbers are not, by themselves, useful solutions to math problems; but they can be used to find them. BILL: Anna, we have a rectangle that's 3 x as long as it is wide, and it encloses an area of 300 square meters.
Sometimes, operations are applied directly to a variable in mathematical expressions. For example, in the expression 3 x ^2, the squaring operation is being applied to the variable x. In the expression 2*(square root y), the square root operation is being applied to the variable y.