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diporpa (plural diporpae)

  1. (zoology) A juvenile diplozoid that has not yet coupled with another individual.
    • 2007, Graham C. Kearn, Leeches, Lice and Lampreys:
      As noted above, the diporpa is capable of locomotion and if it should meet another diporpa, the ventral sucker of one individual grasps the dorsal papilla of the other.