cercaria

Meaning of cercaria

noun

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.

mid 19th century: modern Latin, formed irregularly from Greek kerkos ‘tail’.

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Hyphenation of cercaria

cer-caria

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • cercaria is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with cercaria

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