lophocercous

English

Etymology

From lopho- +‎ -cercous.

Adjective

lophocercous (not comparable)

1. Having a tail structure with lateral lobes or extensions.
   • 1943, Charles Franklin Craig, Ernest Carroll Faust, Clinical Parasitology, page 398:

     A first sporocyst generation and two reiae generations are then developed, and, finally, there erupt from the snail characteristic lophocercous ( i.e., keeled) cercaria ( Fig . 173 ) , with pigmented eye-spots, abundant penetration glands and a distinctive anterior end, having an antero-ventral mouth and a pair of clustered openings for the penetration gland.