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ALL meanings of taenia

tae·ni·a
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  • noun plural taenia Classical Antiquity. a headband or fillet. 1
  • noun plural taenia Architecture. (on a Doric entablature) a fillet or band separating the frieze from the architrave. 1
  • noun plural taenia Anatomy. a ribbonlike structure, as certain bands of white nerve fibers in the brain. 1
  • noun plural taenia any tapeworm of the genus Taenia, parasitic in humans and other mammals. 1
  • noun taenia (in ancient Greece) a narrow fillet or headband for the hair 0
  • noun taenia the fillet between the architrave and frieze of a Doric entablature 0
  • noun taenia any bandlike structure or part 0
  • noun taenia any tapeworm of the genus Taenia, such as T. soleum, a parasite of man that uses the pig as its intermediate host 0
  • noun taenia an ancient Greek headband or fillet 0
  • noun taenia a ribbonlike part or structure, as of muscle or nerve tissue 0
  • noun taenia a band between the frieze and the architrave of a Doric entablature 0
  • noun taenia a tapeworm (esp. genus Taenia) 0
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