Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One of the segments of a tapeworm, containing both male and female reproductive organs.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the detached sexually mature segments of a tapeworm or tænia; a proglottis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl) Proglottis.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of the segments of a tapeworm; they contain both male and female reproductive organs

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek proglōttis, proglōttid-, tip of the tongue (from its shape) : pro-, before; see pro– + glōtta, tongue.]

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Examples

  • Each segment of their body is a self contained unit called a proglottid and they soak up the nutrients they need through their skin.

    Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines 2009

  • Cestodes are hermaphroditic with a complete reproductive system on each proglottid.

    Platyhelminthes 2007

  • This approach is so successful that the rest of the internet just gives the hell up Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to become a prognosticator, a progressive and a proglottid.

    Breasts, Violas and Tulips: Alt Predictions for 2008 2007

  • In many cases the terminal proglottid packed with eggs breaks away from the strobila and is freed within the feces

    Platyhelminthes 2007

  • At copulation the cirrus of the male is everted into the vaginal opening of the proglottid of an adjacent worm.

    Platyhelminthes 2007

  • This approach is so successful that the rest of the internet just gives the hell up Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to become a prognosticator, a progressive and a proglottid.

    Breasts, Violas and Tulips: Alt Predictions for 2008 2007

  • Each proglottid contains one set of male reproductive organs and one set of female reproductive organs.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • [4] Each proglottid fertilizes and stores hundreds of eggs, the more mature proglottids are at the posterior end of the tapeworm.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • [6] When fully matured a proglottid breaks off (a terminal proglotted) it is excreted in the host's feces.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Each proglottid contains one set of male reproductive organs and one set of female reproductive organs.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

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