cercaria

See also: cercaría

English

Cercaria among the life cycle stages of Schistosoma japonicum (note the misspelling "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)

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

Derived terms

• cercarial / anticercarial
• metacercaria
• xiphidiocercaria

 

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): (Valencia) [seɾ.kaˈɾi.a]

Verb

cercaria

1. first/third-person singular conditional of cercar

Galician

Verb

cercaria

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seʁ.kaˈɾi.ɐ/ [seh.kaˈɾi.ɐ]

• (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

1. first/third-person singular conditional of cercar