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CERCARIA
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Irregular inflected forms: cercariae , cercariiae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tadpole-shaped parasitic larva of a trematode worm; tail disappears in adult stage
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cercaria" is a kind of...):
larva (the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose)
Holonyms ("cercaria" is a member of...):
class Trematoda; Trematoda (parasitic flatworms (including flukes))
Derivation:
cercarial (of or relating to cercaria)
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