taenia

American  

[tee-nee-uh] / ˈti ni ə /

Or tenia

noun

• taeniae
  plural

1. Classical Antiquity. a headband or fillet.

2. Architecture. (on a Doric entablature) a fillet or band separating the frieze from the architrave.

3. Anatomy. a ribbonlike structure, as certain bands of white nerve fibers in the brain.

4. any tapeworm of the genus Taenia, parasitic in humans and other mammals.

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taenia British  

/ ˈtiːnɪə /

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• taeniae
  plural

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

See Examples For:

taenia taeniae

He has long hair, bound with a taenia, and a long pointed beard.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by A. H. Smith

Simon Pauli tells us, that they have been the grand secret of some empirics against the broad kind of worms called taenia; and that the dose is one, two, or three drams of the powder.

From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury

"Yes; you've now seen the heart of the government, cousin, and you must next be shown the ascarides, the taenia, the intestinal worm,—the republican, since I must needs name him," said Leon.

From Unconscious Comedians by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Each peduncle joins, along with the taenia semicircularis, the anterior pillar of the fornix of its own side.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

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 A. H. Smith

The capillitium is very even the taeniae closely wound, the elater-ends often furcate.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

All the figures on the east side had metal taeniae or stephanae, the holes for the attachment of the metal being still visible.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by A. H. Smith