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Word: Cercaria
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
mid 19th century: modern Latin, formed irregularly from Greek kerkos ‘tail’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
səːˈkɛːrɪə
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a free-swimming larval stage in which a parasitic fluke passes from an intermediate host (typically a snail) to another intermediate host or to the final vertebrate host.
Short Definition:free-swimming larval stage in which parasitic fluke passes from intermediate host to another one
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