furcocercous

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English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin furcātus (“forked, branched”), from Latin furca (“fork”) +‎ -cercous.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌfɜː(ɹ)kəˈsɜː(ɹ)kəs/

Adjective

furcocercous (not comparable)

  1. (biology, of a cercaria) Having a forked tail
    • 1946, Paul Bartsch, Schistosomophora in China, page 2:
      On examining these, we found one or two infected with cercariae belonging to the furcocercous or fork tailed group.
    • 1958, Parasitology Reprints: Trematoda, Schistosoma - Volume 1, page 711:
      The cercaria is an apharyngeal, distome cercaria of the furcocercous, brevifurcate type with pigmented eyespots .
    • 1972, Thomas Allen Erlandson, The Larval Trematode Parasites of Snails Inhabiting a Semipermanent Pond, and Ecological Factors Affecting Their Seasonal Occurrence, page 1:
      Miller (1926) published a monograph of furcocurcous cercariae, and Cort and Brooks (1928) reported on the holostome cercariae in the Doublas Lake Region of Michigan.
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