Main Entry: Di·ge·nea Pronunciation: dI-'jE-nE-& Function: noun plural : a subclass, suborder, or other taxon of trematode worms which havea complex life cycle involving alternation of sexual reproduction as an internal parasite of a vertebrate with asexual reproduction in a mollusk and often including developmental stages in still otherhosts and which include a number of parasites (as the Chinese liver fluke) of humans —compare MONOGENEA —di·ge·ne·an/-&n/adjective or noun
Digenean. A subclass of parasitic flatworms characterized by a complex life cycle involving developmental stages in a mollusk intermediate host and an adult stage in a vertebrate and including all of the common flukes of humans and other mammals.
