tapeworm / ˈteɪpˌwɜrm /

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tapeworm 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.

更多tapeworm例句

  1. "Health-care costs in this country are a tapeworm of American business," he continued.
  2. (a) Flatworms are sometimes parasitic, examples being the tapeworm and liver fluke.
  3. Such is seen in the life history of the liver fluke, a flatworm which kills sheep, and in the tapeworm.
  4. If man eats raw or undercooked pork containing these worms, he may become a host for the tapeworm.
  5. Another common tapeworm parasitic on man lives part of its life as an embryo within the muscles of cattle.
  6. Strobila, stro-bī′la, n. a discomedusan at the stage succeeding the scyphistoma: a segmented tapeworm.