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- noun Plural form of
tapeworm .
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Cestoids are generally known as tapeworms and all species are endoparasites in the guts of all types of vertebrates.
Platyhelminthes 2007
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Cestoids are known as tapeworms because that is what they look like; long and thin much like an unravelled role of tape.
Platyhelminthes 2007
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Class Cestoda (paracitic flatworms), commonly known as the tapeworms consists of long (6m or 20 ft.), soft-bodied, legless invertebrates with bilateral symmetry.
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Class Cestoda (paracitic flatworms), commonly known as the tapeworms consists of long (6m or 20 ft.), soft-bodied, legless invertebrates with bilateral symmetry.
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Class Cestoda (paracitic flatworms), commonly known as the tapeworms consists of long (6m or 20 ft.), soft-bodied, legless invertebrates with bilateral symmetry.
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And often, in an excess of sentiment, he installed live pigs in offices overnight and got fat men to eat "tapeworms" he had dug up in his garden.
Beard 2010
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It's interesting when Block and Huebert compare unions to "tapeworms" on the economy - it seems to be vulgar libertarian ...
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Flat worms, such as tapeworms and flukes, require secondary hosts.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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Second: They may be diseased, and there is the possibility of their containing animal parasites, such as tapeworms and trichinæ.
Diet and Health With Key to the Calories Lulu Hunt Peters
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From our food we likewise contract dangerous maladies such as tapeworms from uncooked meats and fish and the deadly trichina from raw hog meat.
Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene 1896
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