Definitions for cercaria

cercaria cer·car·i·a

Spelling: [ser-kair-ee-uh]
IPA: /sərˈkɛər i ə/

Cercaria is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in cercaria (aacceirr).

Definitions for cercaria

noun

  1. the disk-shaped larva of flukes of the class Trematoda, having a taillike appendage.

Origin of cercaria

1830-40; New Latin, equivalent to cerc- (Greek kérkos tail) + -āria -aria

Examples for cercaria

There are some grounds for comparing the scolex to the cercaria of Trematodes, cf. Archigetes.

This organised nurse, which is about a line in length, is the cercaria cystophora of Wagener.

By drinking the water which contains the cercaria of this species, they grow infested by this singular lodger.

A migration of the cercaria is indispensable to its perfection.

Dr Guido Wagener figures similar structures as occurring in cercaria macrocerca.

The cercaria setifera of J. Mller has been found free and attached to the lower surface of some medus.

The infusoriform larva of the Dicyemid, and the cercaria of the Trematodes, are such forms.

It is always of a deep colour, and is doubtless introduced in the state of cercaria, when the animal is drinking.

Word Value for cercaria
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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