herpetomonas
noun
her·pe·tom·o·nas
| \ ˌhər-pə-ˈtäm-ə-nəs
, -ˌnas
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, -ˌnas
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Medical Definition of herpetomonas
1
capitalized
: a genus of flagellates of the family Trypanosomatidae morphologically similar to the genus Trypanosoma but exclusively parasites of the gut of insects
2
: any flagellate of the genus Herpetomonas
also
: any member of the family Trypanosomatidae that appears to have two flagella due to precocious duplication of the locomotor apparatus