Definition of Cercariae

1. Noun. (plural of cercaria) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cercariae

1. cercaria [n] - See also: cercaria

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cercariae

ceratopsian
ceratopsians
ceratopsid
ceratopsids
ceratosaur
ceratosaurian
ceratosaurians
ceratosaurs
ceratosaurus
ceratozamia
ceraunics
cerauno-
ceraunoscopy
cercal
cercaria
cercariae (current term)
cercarial
cercarian
cercarians
cercarias
cerchiaraite
cerci
cercidosome
cercises
cerclage
cercocebus
cercocebus atys
cercocystis
cercomer
cercomonad

Literary usage of Cercariae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"There is a considerable variation in the escape of cercariae from different ... It is further possible to correlate the numbers of cercariae given off from ..."

2. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"Recently Leiper has found cercariae showing the absence of a pharynx (characteristic ... Leiper has also found cercariae showing absence of pharynx in four ..."

3. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"No North American cercariae have yet been well described which fall into this ... These are not closely related genera and the group of cercariae does not ..."

4. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1881)
"But with all aquatic cercariae an encysted stage seems to be necessary, and no instance is ... When free cercariae have been given to the animals which ..."

5. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"(4) The cercariae pass out of the body of their parent, and out of their host, and become for a short time free. They then pass into a second, ..."

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