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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Taenia

· Tae·ni·a · IPA
01 n. A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.
pl. Taeniae ((#))
  1. 1.
    A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.(Zool.) See: Tapeworm
  2. 2.
    A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.(Anat.)
  3. 3.
    The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.(Arch.)