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Merriam Webster's

noun (plural rediae; also redias) Etymology: New Latin, from Francesco Redi died 1698? Italian naturalist Date: 1877 a larva produced within the sporocyst of many trematodes that produces another generation of rediae or develops into a cercaria • redial adjective

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Redia Re"di*a (r?"d?*?), n.; pl. L. Redi[ae] (-[=e]), E. Redias (-?z). [NL.; of uncertain origin.] (Zo["o]l.) 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 redi[ae], or else cercari[ae] within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix.