Parasite damaging to red meat (9)

I believe the answer is:

trematode

'parasite' is the definition.
(type of flatworm)

'damaging to red meat' is the wordplay.
'damaging' indicates anagramming the letters.
'to'+'red'+'meat'='toredmeat'
'toredmeat' with letters rearranged gives 'TREMATODE'.

(Another definition for trematode that I've seen is " Fluke".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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