miracidium
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from Ancient Greek μειράκιον (meirákion).
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Noun[edit]
miracidium (plural miracidia)
- (biology) A free-living motile form of a trematode, covered with cilia, which settles in a mollusc intermediate host to become a sporocyst
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References[edit]
- “miracidium”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.