Heterophyes

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Translingual

Heterophyes heterophyes

Etymology

New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros, another, different) +‎ φυή (phuḗ, growth, original form) +‎ -ης (-ēs, adjectival suffix), for distinction from the flukes in the genus Paragonimus.

Proper noun

Heterophyes f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Heterophyidae – certain heterophyid trematodes.

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