taenia
Americannoun
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Classical Antiquity. a headband or fillet.
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Architecture. (on a Doric entablature) a fillet or band separating the frieze from the architrave.
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Anatomy. a ribbonlike structure, as certain bands of white nerve fibers in the brain.
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any tapeworm of the genus Taenia, parasitic in humans and other mammals.
noun
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(in ancient Greece) a narrow fillet or headband for the hair
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architect the fillet between the architrave and frieze of a Doric entablature
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anatomy any bandlike structure or part
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any tapeworm of the genus Taenia, such as T. soleum, a parasite of man that uses the pig as its intermediate host
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of taenia
First recorded in 1555–65; from Latin, from Greek tainía “band, ribbon”; taenia defs. 4 is from New Latin, Latin, as above
Example Sentences
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Round the taenia are five drilled holes, indicating that a wreath of bronze was attached.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
The hair is bound with a taenia and falls in short corkscrew curls over the forehead, and in a flowing mass down the shoulders.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
The following account of the symptoms caused by taenia may be interesting.
From The Dog by Youatt, William
A piece of bronze, which is fixed in the marble about the middle of the left thigh, may have served for the attachment of a metallic object, perhaps a taenia held in the left hand.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
A male head in high relief, wearing a taenia, is slightly bent forwards to the right.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
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