diporpa

English

Noun

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.