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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A division of the Cestoidea, or cestoid worms, including those tapeworms which when adult have parts or organs of the head in pairs, as two suckers and two rostellar eminences: they have also a collar of hooklets on the neck.
  • An order of tetrabothridiate Cestoidea.

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