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Trematode

noun
1.
Parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host.  Synonyms: fluke, trematode worm.






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"Trematode" Quotes from Famous Books



... pretend to say; but I can at least adduce the great analogy of the alternation of generations. If a 'Bipinnaria', a 'Brachialaria', a 'Pluteus', is competent to produce the Echinoderm, which is so widely different from it; if a hydroid polype can produce the higher Medusa; if the vermiform Trematode 'nurse' can develop within itself the very unlike 'Cercaria', it will not appear impossible that the egg, or ciliated embryo, of a sponge, for once, under special conditions, might become a hydroid polype, or the embryo of a ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley



Words linked to "Trematode" :   schistosome, Fasciolopsis buski, platyhelminth, blood fluke, class Trematoda, liver fluke, Fasciola hepatica, flatworm, fluke, Trematoda



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