chiloplacus

\\kīˈläpləkəs\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from chil- + -placus (from Greek plak-, plax anything flat and broad) — more at please

: 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