cœnuren.
/ˈsiːnjə/ Zoology.
The ‘many-headed bladderworm’; the hydatid which produces the disease called staggers in sheep; it is the cystic stage or larva of Tœnia cœnurus, one of the tapeworms of the dog.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Platyhelminthes > [noun] > class Cestodes > member of > segmented > larva > in encysted state
hydatid1683
acephalocyst1814
cœnure1847
bladder worm1858
cysticercus1871
1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Cœnure..Hydatides which infest the brain of sheep.
1876 P. J. Van Beneden Animal Parasites & Messmates 99 The Coenurus of the sheep causes giddiness, and becomes fatal to the animal which harbours it.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 326 There are 300 to 400 heads in Coenurus.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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