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Trematode vs Cestode - What's the difference?

trematode | cestode |

As nouns the difference between trematode and cestode

is that trematode is any of several parasitic flatworms, of the class Trematoda, that have external suckers while cestode is any of various parasitic tapeworms of the class Cestoda

As an adjective cestode is

of or characteristic of such creatures.

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

    cestode

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various parasitic tapeworms of the class Cestoda
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or characteristic of such creatures
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