tapeworm

See also: tape-worm

English

An adult tapeworm, Taenia saginata

The life cycle of Taenia saginata

tape +‎ worm.

tapeworm (countable and uncountable, plural tapeworms)

(countable) Any parasitical worm of the class or infraclass Cestoda, which infest the intestines of animals, including humans, often infecting different host species during their life cycle.
1. (countable) A broad fish tapeworm, Diphyllobothrium latum.
(uncountable) Infection by tapeworms.
- 1967, Senator Hill, United States. Congress. Senate, Labor--Health, Education, and Welfare appropriations for 1968: Hearings before the subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, volume 8, page 1819:
  We used to have a lot of tapeworm down in my neck of the woods, but we don't have much now.

parasitical worm of the class Cestoda

Norwegian:
Bokmål: bendelorm m

Nynorsk: bendelorm m, bendelmakk m, bendelmark m
Polish: tasiemiec (pl) m
Portuguese: tênia f
Quechua: kinwara, unkaka
Russian: ле́нточный червь m (léntočnyj červʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: bèist-dà-leann f
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: trakavica (sh) f, pantljičara (sh) f, trakulja f
Slovene: trakulja (sl) f
Spanish: tenia f, lombriz solitaria f, cestodo m, céstodo m
Swedish: bandmask c, binnikemask c
Tagalog: ulyabid, tenya
Telugu: బద్దెపురుగు (te) (baddepurugu)
Ukrainian: стьожко́вий черв m (stʹožkóvyj červ)
Vietnamese: sán (vi)
Westrobothnian: benikmærk m

Diphyllobothrium latum

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