Taenia (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun, plural tae·ni·ae [tee-nee-ee]. /ˈti niˌi/.
  1. a headband or fillet.
  2. (on a Doric entablature) a fillet or band separating the frieze from the architrave.
  3. a ribbonlike structure, as certain bands of white nerve fibers in the brain.
  4. any tapeworm of the genus Taenia, parasitic in humans and other mammals.
noun plural -niae (-nɪˌiː)
  1. (in ancient Greece) a narrow fillet or headband for the hair
  2. the fillet between the architrave and frieze of a Doric entablature
  3. any bandlike structure or part
  4. any tapeworm of the genus Taenia, such as T. soleum, a parasite of man that uses the pig as its intermediate host
Taenia (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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