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Word: Metacercaria
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
1920s; earliest use found in American Naturalist. From meta- + Cercaria, after French métacercaire
Definition:
The encysted final larval form of a trematode (parasitic worm), into which a cercaria develops prior to assuming the adult form in the definitive host.
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