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metacyclic

metacyclic adjective: describing the infective part of the life cycle of trypanosomes outside the body of a host.

Adjective

metacyclic (not comparable)

  1. Describing the infective part of the life cycle of trypanosomes outside the body of a host

Noun

metacyclic (plural metacyclics)

  1. Such an organism

Forms of metacyclic

pluralmetacyclics

Origin of metacyclic

From meta- + cyclic.

Words formed from metacyclic

Questions about metacyclic

What does metacyclic mean?
Metacyclic means describing the infective part of the life cycle of trypanosomes outside the body of a host.
What part of speech is metacyclic?
Metacyclic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near metacyclic in the dictionary

  1. metacubes
  2. metacultural
  3. metaculture
  4. metacultures
  5. metacurrency
  6. metacyclic
  7. metacyclics
  8. metacycline
  9. metacyclogenesis
  10. metacyclogenic
  11. metacyclophane

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