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adj. [Gr. dis, twice; genesis, beginning]With sexual reproduction in the mature forms and asexual reproduction in larval stages.
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.
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digenetic — DIGENÉTIC, Ă adj. (biol.) Care prezintă digeneză. [cf. fr. digénétique]. Trimis de LauraGellner, 22.02.2005. Sursa: DN DIGENÉTIC, Ă adj. care prezintă digeneză. (< fr. digénétique) Trimis de raduborza, 15.09.2007. Sursa: MDN … Dicționar Român
digenetic — adjective Etymology: New Latin Digenetica, subclass name (synonym of Digenea), from di + genetica, neuter plural of geneticus genetic Date: circa 1883 of or relating to a subclass (Digenea) of trematode worms in which sexual reproduction as an… … New Collegiate Dictionary
digenetic — adjective Pertaining to digenesis. Syn: heteroxenous, metagenetic … Wiktionary
digenetic — 1. Pertaining to or characterized by digenesis. SYN: heteroxenous. 2. Pertaining to the d. fluke. * * * di·ge·net·ic .dī jə net ik adj 1) of or relating to digenesis 2) of or relating to the taxon Digenea of trematode worms * * * di·ge·net·ic… … Medical dictionary
digenetic — adj. (Zoology) of creation in two ways, of reproduction by both sexual and asexual methods … English contemporary dictionary
digenetic — di·genetic … English syllables
digenetic — |dī+ adjective Etymology: in sense 1, from di + genetic; in sense 2, from New Latin Digenetica 1. : of or relating to digenesis 2. : of or relating to Digenea … Useful english dictionary
digenesis — digenetic /duy jeuh net ik/, adj. /duy jen euh sis/, n. Zool. See alternation of generations. [1875 80; < NL; see DI 1, GENESIS] * * * … Universalium
Schistosoma — A genus of digenetic trematodes, including the important blood flukes of humans and domestic animals, that cause schistosomiasis; characterized by elongate shape, by separate sexes with marked sexual dimorphism, by their unusual location in the… … Medical dictionary
sporocyst — 1. A larval form of digenetic trematode (fluke) that develops in the body of its molluscan intermediate host, usually a snail; the s. forms a simple saclike structure with germinal cells that bud off internally and … Medical dictionary
