MIRACIDIUM


Meaning of MIRACIDIUM in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌmir-ə-ˈsi-dē-əm, ˌmī-rə- ]

noun

( plural mi·ra·cid·ia -dē-ə)

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek meirak-, meirax youth, stripling + New Latin -idium

Date: 1898

: the free-swimming ciliated first larva of a digenetic trematode that seeks out and penetrates a suitable snail intermediate host in which it develops into a sporocyst

• mi·ra·cid·i·al -dē-əl adjective

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