Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical and leading genus of the family Distomidæ; a genus of trematoid or suctorial parasitic worms, or flukes, of which D. hepaticum, the liver-fluke, is the best-known.
- noun [lowercase] An animal belonging to this genus.
- noun Same as
Distomus
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st
fluke , 2.
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Examples
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Euripides, distoma phasgana: and elsewhere, pelekus distomos.
Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863
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The jew-fish has the same distoma in its swimming bladder, which I observed in specimens caught in the Severn River to the southward of
Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830
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