strongyloid, a. and n. Zool.
(ˈstrɒndʒɪlɔɪd)
[f. mod.L. Strongylus: see strongyle1 and -oid.]
a. adj. Resembling a strongyle. b. n. A strongyloid worm.
| 1879 Cobbold Parasites 335 The growth and metamorphoses which I witnessed in strongyloid larvæ taken from earth-worms..were remarkably rapid. Ibid. 336 Leuckart supposes that all these strongyloids require a change of hosts before [etc.]. 1883 Athenæum 24 Mar. 381/3 Prof. Simonds regarded the worm as a species of Strongylus... It is found that what was at first regarded as the head turns out to be the tail, so that the supposed strongyloid character is incorrect. |