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cercaria

DEFINITIONS OF: cercaria

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n tadpole-shaped parasitic larva of a trematode worm; tail disappears in adult stage

Type of:
larva
the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose
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