New Crossword Solver
New Crossword Solver
Start typing and press "Enter" or "ESC" to close
Solver
Assistant
Anagram
Word Meaning
Find the meaning or definition of a word or phrase in English
Search
x
Meaning of tapeworm
- Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Taenia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the intestines of the animals in which they are parasitic. The larvae (see Cysticercus) live in the flesh of various creatures, and when swallowed by another animal of the right species develop into the mature tapeworm in its intestine. See Illustration in Appendix.
Latest view
blades
incessancy
deters
phytophysiology
lemnos
histotomy
bine
desulphurated
loreal
homodynamous
psalmodist
propiolic
mooned
ayeaye
exited
zaftig
serpulian
modocs
omphaloptic
crisps
Popular word
waft
shipless
cicero
hunk
thwite
diablerie
stonish
lite
preceptive
scarab
ministress
plashy
scissors
pilot
studio
stoneroot
sapotaceous
godhood
pearl eyed
locusting
Random Words
Manhaden
Saxifraga
Haul
Encashment
Propagative
Holdfast
Decempedal
Auctary
Septangle
Abruptness
Parleying
Glycocoll
Tammuz
Cracker
Hammer
Psychopathy
Indited
Tread
Bacilli
Grumous