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noun, plural -ni·ae 
[-nee-ee] .
[-nee-ee] . 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.
Also, tenia.
Origin:
1555–65; < Latin < Greek tainía band, ribbon; (in def. 4) < Neo-Latin, Latin, as above
1555–65; < Latin < Greek tainía band, ribbon; (in def. 4) < Neo-Latin, Latin, as above
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Taenia Tae·ni·a (tē'nē-ə)
n.
A genus of cestodes that formerly included most of the tapeworms but is now restricted to those species infecting carnivores with a cysticercus.
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