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A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediæ, or else cercariæ within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix.

Consisting of land or farms; landed; as, predial estate; that is, real estate. Ayliffe.

Preceding the diastole of the heart; as, a prediastolic friction sound.

pl. of Soredium.

Sorediïferous.

Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; -- said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude.…

of certain trematodes which produces cercariæ by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.

See Predial.

An early larval form of a trematode worm; a redia. See Redia.

resence, not however in the sense of transubstantiation. -- Real servitude, called also Predial servitude (Civil Law), a burden imposed upon one estate in favor of another estate of another proprietor. Erskine. Bouvier.

Bearing soredia; sorediate.

or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. See Redia.

ertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia.

se living in a city; cultivated; polite; urbane; as, urban manners. Urban servitude. See Predial servitude, under Servitude.