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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband;
[syn: taenia, tenia, fillet]

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


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Taenia \Tae"ni*a\, n.; pl. Taeniae. [L., a ribbon, a tapeworm.] 1. (Zool.) A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm. [1913 Webster] 2. (Anat.) A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain. [1913 Webster] 3. (Arch.) The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave. [1913 Webster] Taeniacide
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

taenia n 1: a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband [syn: taenia, tenia, fillet] 2: tapeworms parasitic in humans which uses the pig as its intermediate host