Chiloplacus
noun
Chi·lop·la·cus
kīˈläpləkəs
: a genus of usually saprophagous soil-dwelling nematode worms (family Cephalobidae) sometimes associated with root blindness of seedling plants and with failure of cuttings to root
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from chil- + -placus (from Greek plak-, plax anything flat and broad)