tapeworm

See also: tape-worm

English

An adult tapeworm, Taenia saginata

The life cycle of Taenia saginata

Etymology

From tape ‎ worm.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: tāpʹwûrm', IPA^(key): /ˈteɪpˌwɝm/
• Hyphenation: tape‧worm

Noun

tapeworm (countable and uncountable, plural tapeworms)

1. (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.
2. (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^[1], 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.

Synonyms

• (any species of class Cestoda): cestode

Derived terms

• armed tapeworm
• beef tapeworm
• dwarf tapeworm
• pork tapeworm
• rabbit tapeworm
• red tapeworm

Translations

parasitical worm of the class Cestoda

• Breton: lenkernenn-vras (br) f
• Bulgarian: тения (bg) f (tenija)
• Catalan: tènia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 絛蟲／绦虫 (zh) (tāochóng)

• Czech: tasemnice (cs) f
• Danish: bendelorm c
• Dutch: lintworm (nl) m
• Finnish: heisimato (fi)
• French: ver solitaire (fr) m
• Galician: tenia (gl) f
• German: Bandwurm (de) m
• Greek: ταινία (el) f (tainía)

  Ancient: ἀσκαρίς f (askarís)

• Hebrew: שרשור (he) m (sharshur)
• Hungarian: bélféreg (hu), giliszta (hu), galandféreg (hu)
• Icelandic: bandormur m
• Ingush: богуз (boguz)
• Irish: cailleach ghoile f, péist ribíneach f
• Italian: verme solitario m, tenia (it) f, cenuro m
• Japanese: サナダムシ (sanadamushi), 真田虫 (ja) (さなだむし, sanadamushi)
• Latin: taenia f
• Latvian: lentenis m
• Norman: vèr solitaithe m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bendelorm m

  Nynorsk: bendelorm m, bendelmakk m, bendelmark m

• Ottoman Turkish: اوبور (obur)
• Plautdietsch: Bauntworm m
• Polish: tasiemiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: tênia f (Brazil), ténia (pt) f (Portugal), bicha-solitária 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 (es) f, lombriz solitaria f, cestodo m, céstodo m
• Swedish: bandmask c, binnikemask c
• Tagalog: ulyabid, tenya
• Telugu: బద్దెపురుగు (te) (baddepurugu)
• Turkish: tenya (tr)
• Ukrainian: стьожко́вий черв m (stʹožkóvyj červ)
• Vietnamese: sán (vi)
• Waigali: tëćiv
• Welsh: llyngyren ruban f

Diphyllobothrium latum

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: brede vislintworm
• Finnish: lapamato (fi)
• German: Fischbandwurm m, Grubenkopf m
• Latin: taenia f
• Swedish: bred binnikemask, fiskbinnikemask
• Turkish: balık tenyası
• Ukrainian: стьожак широкий m (stʹožak šyrokyj)

See also

• bladderworm
• measly
• proglottid
• scolex
• taenia
• taeniasis
• cysticercosis

Verb

tapeworm (third-person singular simple present tapeworms, present participle tapeworming, simple past and past participle tapewormed)

1. (intransitive) To move along in a wriggling manner, like a tapeworm.
2. (transitive) To treat (an animal) for tapeworm infection.

Further reading

• tapeworm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• mop water, mopwater, pomwater