blood fluke

noun

a schistosome.

Origin of blood fluke

First recorded in 1870–75

Words nearby blood fluke

blood disk, blood donor, blood doping, blood dyscrasia, blood feud, blood fluke, blood gas, blood gas analysis, blood group, blood group antigen, blood group-specific substances a and b

British Dictionary definitions for blood fluke

blood fluke

noun

any parasitic flatworm, such as a schistosome, that lives in the blood vessels of man and other vertebrates: class Digenea See also trematode