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Definition of Cercarians
1. cercarian [n] - See also: cercarian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cercarians
Literary usage of Cercarians
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1861)
"In the third generation, these cercarians are brought forth by the mother, swim
for a while free in the water, and then become a kind of pupa, ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1861)
"In the third generation, these cercarians «re brought forth by the mother, swim
for a while free in the water, and then become a kind of pupa, ..."
3. Parasites: A Treatise on the Entozoa of Man and Animals Including Some by Thomas Spencer Cobbold (1879)
"... cercarians, we have abundant evidence of the existence of other and more highly
developed fluke-larvae in marine bivalve mollusks. ..."
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