furcocercous

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.