Taenia

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A narrow band or ribbon for the hair that was worn in ancient Greece.
  • n. Architecture A band in the Doric order that separates the frieze from the architrave.
  • n. Anatomy A ribbonlike band of tissue or muscle.
  • n. A flatworm of the genus Taenia, which includes many tapeworms.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A ribbon worn in the hair in ancient Greece.
  • n. A band between the frieze and architrave in the Doric order.
  • n. Any ribbon-like band of tissue.
  • n. A tapeworm, and similar worms of the genus Taenia.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See tapeworm.
  • n. A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.
  • n. The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In classical archæol., a ribbon, band, or head-band; a fillet.
  • n. In architecture, the fillet or band on the Doric architrave, which separates it from the frieze.
  • n. In surgery, a long and narrow ribbon used as a ligature.
  • n. In anatomy, a band or fillet: specifically applied to several parts of the brain, distinguished by qualifying epithets.
  • n. In zoology: A tapeworm. [capitalized] The leading genus of tapeworms, of the family Tæniidæ, formerly very comprehensive, now restricted to species like T. solium, the common tape of man. Also Cystotænia. See tapeworm.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband
  • n. tapeworms parasitic in humans which uses the pig as its intermediate host
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    headband    cestode    tapeworm   
    Variant
    taeniae    tapeworm   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    band   
     
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