Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A wormlike larval form of certain tapeworms, typically developing in a copepod.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[pro– + Greek kerkos, tail + –oid.]
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Examples
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When the copepod is eaten by a fish the procercoid migrates to striated muscle of the fish where it transforms into the plerocercoid stage.
Platyhelminthes 2007
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When the coracidium is ingested by a copepod crustacean it penetrates their gut wall and develops into a procercoid.
Platyhelminthes 2007
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