The meaning of Taenia
Taenia – definition
nounA flat ribbon-like structure in the body.
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These sites lie always between the mesenteric tenia and the two antimesenteric teniae, so that the …nounA fillet between a doric architrave and frieze.
noun(in ancient greece) a band or ribbon worn round a person's head.
nounA large tapeworm which parasitizes mammals.
nounA tapeworm (= a small creature with a long, thin, soft body and no legs that can live in the human intestine) of the genus (= type) taenia
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Word origin
mid 16th century (in taenia (sense 2)): via Latin from Greek tainia ‘band, ribbon’.
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