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TRICHINA (trichinae)
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Irregular inflected form: trichinae
Dictionary entry overview: What does trichina mean?
• TRICHINA (noun)
The noun TRICHINA has 1 sense:
1. parasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscles
Familiarity information: TRICHINA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Parasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
trichina; Trichinella spiralis
Hypernyms ("trichina" is a kind of...):
nematode; nematode worm; roundworm (unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic)
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