cercaria
noun
the disk-shaped larva of flukes of the class Trematoda, having a taillike appendage.
cercariae
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pluralof cercaria.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The parasite has a complicated life cycle: its eggs, hatching in warm water, develop larvae which enter snails, there develop to a second, man-attacking larval stage called cercariae or flukes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then comes the unsuspecting sheep to take his frugal meal, and, cropping the grass swallows it, cercariae and all.
From The Eye of Osiris by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
Thus the cercariae, escaping from the snail, find themselves on the grass, whereupon they promptly drop their tails and stick themselves to the grass-blades.
From The Vanishing Man by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
Thus the cercariae, escaping from the snail find themselves on the grass whereupon they promptly drop their tails and stick themselves to the grass-blades.
From The Eye of Osiris by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
Then comes the unsuspecting sheep to take his frugal meal, and, cropping the grass, swallows it, cercariae and all.
From The Vanishing Man by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
