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Fasciolidae

noun

a family of Trematoda

• Syn: ↑family Fasciolidae

• Hypernyms: ↑worm family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Trematoda, ↑class Trematoda

• Member Meronyms: ↑Fasciola, ↑genus Fasciola, ↑Fasciolopsis, ↑genus Fasciolopsis

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\\ˌfasēˈäləˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Fasciola, type genus + -idae

: a cosmopolitan family of digenetic trematodes chiefly infesting the livers of mammals and typically having a flattened leaf-shaped body with the ventral sucker near the anterior end — see fasciola, fascioloides, fasciolopsis

Useful english dictionary. 2012.