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cestode, n. and a. Zool.|ˈsɛstəʊd|
[f. mod.L. Cestoda, class name (formerly Cestoidea): see cestoid a. and n., -ode1.]
A. n. A parasitic worm of the class Cestoda, having a flat, ribbon-like body; a tapeworm.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating this class; = cestoid a.
1864T. S. Cobbold Entozoa viii. 105 Every cestode passes through several distinct phases during its life-history. Ibid. 107 It is..difficult to estimate the number of true cestode species at present in existence. 1870H. D. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 137 The cestode many-jointed tapeworms. 1919Parasitology XI. 405 (heading) On two species of the cestode genus Oochoristica from lizards. Ibid., The cestodes of lizards have received little recent attention from systematic zoologists. 1959A. Hardy Open Sea II. xii. 244 We come now to the cestodes or tapeworms, those animals which are apt to fill us with disgust because one of their kind..may come to reside in our own inside. 1977T. I. Storer et al. Elem. Zool. (ed. 4) xvii. 290/1 The cestodes..are all internal parasites of vertebrates. |