n pl :  a family of slender elongated digenetic trematodes of the superfamily Schistosomatoidea in which the sexes are separate and in which marked sexual dimorphism is usu. present .
 
   
 
Similar sounding terms:  Schis·to·so·ma·toi·dea 
 
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