tenia
[
tee
-nee-
uh
]
/ˈti ni ə/
noun
,
plural
teniae
[
tee
-nee-ee]
/ˈti niˌi/
(
Show IPA
)
1.
taenia
.
British Dictionary definitions for
tenia
taenia
/
ˈtiːnɪə
/
noun
(
pl
)
-niae
(
-nɪˌiː
)
1.
(in ancient Greece) a narrow fillet or headband for the hair
2.
(
architect
) the fillet between the architrave and frieze of a Doric entablature
3.
(
anatomy
) any bandlike structure or part
4.
any tapeworm of the genus
Taenia,
such as
T. soleum,
a parasite of man that uses the pig as its intermediate host
Word Origin
C16: via Latin from Greek
tainia
narrow strip; related to Greek
teinein
to stretch
tenia
/
ˈtiːnɪə
/
noun
(
pl
)
-niae
(
-nɪˌiː
)
1.
the US spelling of
taenia
tenia
in Medicine
tenia
te·ni·a (tē'nē-ə)
n.
Variant of
taenia
.