Redia Definition

rēdē-ə
rediae
noun
A larval stage of many trematodes, usually parasitic in a host snail, produced by a sporocyst and producing daughter rediae or cercariae.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Redia

Noun

Singular:
redia
Plural:
rediae

Origin of Redia

  • New Latin after Francesco Redi (1626–1697), Italian naturalist

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Redia Sentence Examples

  • C, A young redia, the digestive tract shaded.

  • D, An adult redia, containing a daughter-redia, two almost mature cercariae, and germs. E, A free cercaria.

  • The structure of a redia, however, is an advance on that of its parent.

  • The movements and activity of the redia cause it to burst the wall of the sporocyst.

  • Exceptions such as these, and those described above involving miracidia containing fully developed redia is evidence of the evolutionary past of these organisms.

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Words Starting With

RRERED

Words Ending With

AIADIA

Unscrambles

redia

Words Starting With R and Ending With A

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