A tape-worm; as consisting of a series of joints.

Zoology. A tapeworm; spec. (with capital initial) a genus of cestoid worms, including the common tapeworm. Also figurative.

A cestoid worm (e.g. Tænia solium), which when adult infests the alimentary canal of vertebrates; = taenia, n. 5.

A worm of this kind. Also attributive. The modern Latin cestoidea n. is sometimes used as plural.

a tapeworm infesting birds, Choanotaenia platycephala.

A parasitic worm of the class Cestoda, having a flat, ribbon-like body; a tapeworm.

A tapeworm of the genus Echinococcus, a hydatid (cf. cyst-worm at cyst, n. compounds). rare (disused).