Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A ciliated larva of a digenetic trematode, which hatches from the egg and enters the first intermediate host, where it develops into a sporocyst or a redia.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The free-swimming larva of the liver-fluke. The body is ciliated and the larva swims about seeking for a definite mollusk, its future host, into which it bores its way by means of the snout, which, in certain species, is armed with a stylet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
free-living motile form of atrematode , covered withcilia , which settles in themollusc to become asporocyst .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In fresh water the eggs hatches and a free-living larval stage, called miracidium, starts its search for an appropriate intermediate snail host.
Chapter 6 1996
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When in the egg stage they are at the mercy of water currents, but once they hatch into miracidium they are able to locomote using cilia.
Platyhelminthes 2007
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The eggs hatch into a ciliated miracidium which actively seeks out the first host, a gastropod, penetrating its skin and metamorphosing into a saclike sporocyst.
Platyhelminthes 2007
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In an internal organ of the snail (equivalent to the liver and pancreas combined) the miracidium transforms into a cercaria (the infective larval stage) in about a month.
Chapter 6 1996
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Though the miracidium held inside the eggs is already well developed at this point, it does not hatch until it is ingested by an intermediate snail host.
unknown title 2009
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Though the miracidium held inside the eggs is already well developed at this point, it does not hatch until it is ingested by an intermediate snail host.
unknown title 2009
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Though the miracidium held inside the eggs is already well developed at this point, it does not hatch until it is ingested by an intermediate snail host.
unknown title 2009
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Though the miracidium held inside the eggs is already well developed at this point, it does not hatch until it is ingested by an intermediate snail host.
unknown title 2009
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