a. and sb. Zool. [f. mod.L. Strongylus: see STRONGYLE1 and -OID.] a. adj. Resembling a strongyle. b. sb. A strongyloid worm.
1879. Cobbold, Parasites, 335. The growth and metamorphoses which I witnessed in strongyloid larvæ taken from earth-worms … were remarkably rapid. Ibid., 336. Leuckart supposes that all these strongyloids require a change of hosts before [etc.].
1883. Athenæum, 24 March, 381/3. Prof. Simonds regarded the worm as a species of Strongylus.… It is found that what was at first regarded as the head turns out to be the tail, so that the supposed strongyloid character is incorrect.
