Metacyclic

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Such an organism
Adjective
  1. 1
    Describing the infective part of the life cycle of trypanosomes outside the body of a host not-comparable

Etymology

From meta- + cyclic.

Related phrases

life cycle

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