English [ edit ]
An adult tapeworm, Taenia saginata
The life cycle of Taenia saginata
Etymology [ edit ]
tape + worm .
Pronunciation [ edit ]
tapeworm (countable and uncountable , plural tapeworms )
( countable ) Any parasitical worm of the class or infraclass Cestoda , which infest the intestines of animals , including humans , often infecting different host species during their life cycle .
( countable ) A broad fish tapeworm , Diphyllobothrium latum .
( uncountable ) Infection by tapeworms.
1967 , Senator Hill, United States. Congress. Senate, Labor--Health, Education, and Welfare appropriations for 1968: Hearings before the subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations [1] , volume 8, page 1819 :We used to have a lot of tapeworm down in my neck of the woods , but we don't have much now.
Synonyms [ edit ]
( any species of class Cestoda ) : cestode
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Translations [ edit ]
parasitical worm of the class Cestoda
Breton: lenkernenn-vras (br) f
Bulgarian: тения (bg) f ( tenija )
Catalan: tènia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 絛蟲 / 绦虫 (zh) ( tāochóng )
Czech: tasemnice (cs) f
Danish: bendelorm c
Dutch: lintworm (nl) m
Finnish: heisimato (fi)
French: ver solitaire (fr) m
Galician: tenia (gl) f
German: Bandwurm (de) m
Greek: ταινία (el) f ( tainía )
Ancient: ἀσκαρίς f ( askarís )
Hebrew: שרשור (he) m ( sharshur )
Hungarian: bélféreg (hu) , giliszta (hu) , galandféreg (hu)
Icelandic: bandormur m
Ingush: богуз ( boguz )
Irish: cailleach ghoile f , péist ribíneach f
Italian: verme solitario m , tenia (it) f , cenuro m
Japanese: サナダムシ ( sanadamushi ) , 真田虫 ( さなだむし, sanadamushi )
Latin: taenia f
Latvian: lentenis m
Norman: vèr solitaithe m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bendelorm m
Nynorsk: bendelorm m , bendelmakk m , bendelmark m
Ottoman Turkish: اوبور ( obur )
Plautdietsch: Bauntworm m
Polish: tasiemiec (pl) m
Portuguese: tênia f ( Brazil ) , ténia (pt) f ( Portugal ) , bicha-solitária f
Quechua: kinwara , unkaka
Russian: ле́нточный червь m ( léntočnyj červʹ )
Scottish Gaelic: bèist-dà-leann f
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: trakavica (sh) f , pantljičara (sh) f , trakulja f
Slovene: trakulja (sl) f
Spanish: tenia (es) f , lombriz solitaria f , cestodo m , céstodo m
Swedish: bandmask c , binnikemask c
Tagalog: ulyabid , tenya
Telugu: బద్దెపురుగు (te) ( baddepurugu )
Turkish: tenya (tr)
Ukrainian: стьожко́вий черв m ( stʹožkóvyj červ )
Vietnamese: sán (vi)
Waigali: tëćiv
Welsh: llyngyren ruban f
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