Definitions for redia

redia re·di·a

Spelling: [ree-dee-uh]
IPA: /ˈri di ə/

Redia is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in redia (adeir).

Definitions for redia

noun

  1. a cylindrical larval stage of some trematodes, produced by a sporocyst and giving rise to daughter rediae or to cercariae.

Origin of redia

1875-80; New Latin, after F. Redi; see -a2

Examples for redia

The Cercari when fully developed leave the Sporocyst or redia, and then their host, and become free.

The redia has anteriorly a mouth leading into a muscular pharynx and thence into a ccal stomach.

This produces within itself numbers of a small creature which is called the redia form.

The Cercari are developed from spherical masses of cells found in the body cavity of the Sporocyst or redia.

Word Value for redia
Scrable

6

Words with friends

6

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