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Trematode vs Tapeworm - What's the difference?

trematode | tapeworm |

As nouns the difference between trematode and tapeworm

is that trematode is any of several parasitic flatworms, of the class trematoda , that have external suckers while tapeworm is (countable) any parasitical worm of the class cestoda, which infest the intestines of animals, including humans, often infecting different host species during their life cycle.

trematode

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • any of several parasitic flatworms, of the class Trematoda , that have external suckers
  • * 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.119:
  • He passed under the last of the bridges and around the bend in the river, through peaceful farmland, high fields tilted on the slopes and rich turned earth in patches of black corrugation among the greening purlieus and small cultivated orchards like scenes of plenitude from picturebooks suddenly pasted over the waste he was a familiar of, the river like a giant trematode curling down out of the city, welling heavy and septic past these fine homes on the north shore.

    Synonyms

    * fluke * trematode worm

    tapeworm

    English

    (wikipedia)

    Noun

  • (countable) Any parasitical worm of the class Cestoda, which infest the intestines of animals, including humans, often infecting different host species during their life cycle.
  • (countable) A (broad fish tapeworm), .
  • (uncountable) Infestation by tapeworms.
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  • Synonyms

    * (any species of class Cestoda) cestode

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