Taenia

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1. Noun

A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.

2. Noun

A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.

3. Noun

The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.

4. Noun

tapeworms parasitic in humans which uses the pig as its intermediate host
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