blood fluke


noun
  1. a schistosome.

Origin of blood fluke

1
First recorded in 1870–75

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British Dictionary definitions for blood fluke

blood fluke

noun
  1. any parasitic flatworm, such as a schistosome, that lives in the blood vessels of man and other vertebrates: class Digenea: See also trematode

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