cercaria

See also: cercaría

English

Cercaria among the life cycle stages of Schistosoma japonicum (note the spelling circarium)

Etymology

From New Latin cercāria, from Ancient Greek κέρκος (kérkos, “tail”) + -āria.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sɜː(ɹ)ˈkɛəɹɪə/

Noun

cercaria (plural cercarias or cercariae)

The parasitic larva of trematodes that infect the final host generally.

Derived terms

cercarial / anticercarial

References

“cercaria”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Catalan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [sər.kəˈɾi.ə]

IPA^(key): (Valencian) [seɾ.kaˈɾi.a]

Verb

cercaria

first/third-person singular conditional of cercar

Galician

Verb

cercaria

(reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular conditional of cercar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /seʁ.kaˈɾi.ɐ/ [seh.kaˈɾi.ɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /seɾ.kaˈɾi.ɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /seʁ.kaˈɾi.ɐ/ [seχ.kaˈɾi.ɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /seɻ.kaˈɾi.a/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨɾ.kɐˈɾi.ɐ/

Hyphenation: cer‧ca‧ri‧a

Verb

cercaria

first/third-person singular conditional of cercar

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