noun
- structures containing spores in certain parasitic flatworms and other organisms
Usage: biology; parasitology
Examples
- The sporocysts develop within the intermediate host’s tissues.
- Marine biologists studied the sporocysts found in infected snails.
- Each sporocyst can produce numerous daughter sporocysts.
- The life cycle includes both sporocysts and cercariae stages.
- Researchers identified sporocysts in the liver samples.
- The sporocysts eventually release free-swimming larvae.