Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A larva of a trematode, which develops from a sporocyst or a redia.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoöl, the second larval stage of a trematoid worm or fluke, named by O. F. Müller in 1786 as a genus of infusorians.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
parasitic larva oftrematodes ; itstail disappears when adult.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tadpole-shaped parasitic larva of a trematode worm; tail disappears in adult stage
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Inside the snail, the parasite passes through several generations before producing a missile-shaped stage called a cercaria.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Inside the snail, the parasite passes through several generations before producing a missile-shaped stage called a cercaria.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Inside the snail, the parasite passes through several generations before producing a missile-shaped stage called a cercaria.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The infective form of schistosoma, called a cercaria, secretes proteases upon detection of human skin lipids (McKerrow & Salter, 2002).
OpenWetWare - Recent changes [en] Kirill Shkura 2010
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The infective form of schistosoma, called a cercaria, secretes proteases upon detection of human skin lipids (McKerrow & Salter, 2002).
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A fluke, for example, hatches into a delicate form covered with hairlike cilia that swim in search of a snail; a couple of generations later, a cercaria emerges from the snail to find its mammal host.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The cercaria then penetrates human skin and becomes an adult that finally ends up in the veins of its human host.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The cercaria then penetrates human skin and becomes an adult that finally ends up in the veins of its human host.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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A fluke, for example, hatches into a delicate form covered with hairlike cilia that swim in search of a snail; a couple of generations later, a cercaria emerges from the snail to find its mammal host.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The cercaria then penetrates human skin and becomes an adult that finally ends up in the veins of its human host.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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