WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
pro•cer•coid
(prō sûr′koid),USA pronunciation n. [Zool.]
- Invertebrates, Zoologyan elongate larval stage of some tapeworms that usually develops in the body of a freshwater copepod. Cf. plerocercoid.
- pro-2 + Greek kérk(os) tail + -oid 1925–30
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