trem|a|tode

trem|a|tode
trem|a|tode «TREHM uh tohd, TREE muh-», noun, adjective.
–n.
any one of various flatworms that live as parasites in or on other animals, such as a variety which infests the lungs of sheep and a variety that lives in the blood vessels of man, causing schistosomiasis; fluke. Trematodes have suckers and sometimes hooks.
–adj.
of or belonging to the trematodes.
╂[< New Latin Trematoda the class name < Greek trēmatēs with holes; having a vent to the intestinal canal < trêma, -atos hole + eîdos form]

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