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definitive host

NOUN
  1. the host in which the sexual reproduction of a parasite takes place

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  • Definitive hosts eating uncooked aquatic plants and vegetation with encysted metacercariae are infected, starting the cycle over again. Chapter 2
  • Second, it can encyst inside a daughter sporocyst as a metacercariae, be voided with the sporocyst, and then be consumed by the benthic-feeding definitive host, rosyside dace.
  • Humans are exploited by adult tapeworms as a definitive host.
  • Second, it can encyst inside a daughter sporocyst as a metacercariae, be voided with the sporocyst, and then be consumed by the benthic-feeding definitive host, rosyside dace.
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