Pentastoma

Translingual

Etymology

From penta- +‎ -stoma.

Proper noun

Pentastoma

  1. (obsolete) Certain species resembling tongueworms:
    1. now in genus Porocephalus, of true tongueworms, in phylum Platyhelminthes;
    2. now in genus Taenia in phylum Arthropoda.

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