máo​yòu

miracidium

  • created sense approved 毛蚴 · máo​yòu · miracidium — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    毛蚴

    máo​yòu

    miracidium

    The free-swimming ciliated larva of a fluke or similar flatworm, such as the blood fluke [[血吸虫|血吸蟲|xue4 xi1 chong2]], which hatches from an egg and must find a snail host to continue its life cycle.

    máo​yǒu

    毛 (literal) → 毛 · máo · hair 蚴 (bound) → 蚴 · yòu · larva

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense