cercaria

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See also: cercaría

English

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Trematode lifecycle stages

Cercaria among the life cycle stages of Schistosoma japonicum (note the misspelling "circarium")

Etymology

From New Latin cercāria, from Ancient Greek κέρκος (kérkos, “tail”) + -āria.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sɜː(ɹ)ˈkɛəɹɪə/

Noun

cercaria (plural cercarias or cercariae)

The parasitic larva of trematodes that infect the final host generally.

Derived terms

References

“cercaria”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Catalan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
IPA^(key): (Valencia)

Verb

cercaria

first/third-person singular conditional of cercar

Galician

Verb

cercaria

(reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular conditional of cercar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /seʁ.kaˈɾi.ɐ/
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /seɾ.kaˈɾi.ɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /seʁ.kaˈɾi.ɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /seɻ.kaˈɾi.a/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨɾ.kɐˈɾi.ɐ/

Hyphenation: cer‧ca‧ri‧a

Verb

cercaria

first/third-person singular conditional of cercar

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