Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cercaria

1 sense of cercaria

Sense 1
cercaria -- (tadpole-shaped parasitic larva of a trematode worm; tail disappears in adult stage)
       => larva -- (the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose)