miracidium
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[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Cercarial_LifeCycle.png/400px-Cercarial_LifeCycle.png)
Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Ancient Greek μειράκιον (meirákion).
Pronunciation
[edit]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
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “miracidium”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.