Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as Cestoidea.

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

  • proper noun (Zoöl.) A subclass of parasitic worms of the class Cestoidea. In some classifications, it is not differentiated from the parent class.

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  • proper noun A taxonomic class within the phylum Platyhelminthes — the cestode parasites.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun tapeworms

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Examples

  • The relationship between infectivity of Schistocephalus solidus Cestoda and anti-predator behavior of its intermediate host, the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Echinococcus granulosus Cestoda: Taeniidae infections and moose-wolf population dynamics in southwestern Quebec.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Molecular and morphological evidence for multiple species within Paranoplocephala omphalodes (Hermann, 1783) (Cestoda: Anoplocephalidae) in Microtus-voles (Arvicolinae).

    Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on structure of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term 2009

  • The relationship between infectivity of Schistocephalus solidus Cestoda and anti-predator behavior of its intermediate host, the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • The relationship between infectivity of Schistocephalus solidus Cestoda and anti-predator behavior of its intermediate host, the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Phylogeography of the circumpolar '' Paranoplocephala arctica '' species complex (Cestoda: Anoplocephalidae) parasitizing collared lemmings ( '' Dicrostonyx '' spp.).

    Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels 2009

  • Echinococcus granulosus Cestoda: Taeniidae infections and moose-wolf population dynamics in southwestern Quebec.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Echinococcus granulosus Cestoda: Taeniidae infections and moose-wolf population dynamics in southwestern Quebec.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • We examine platyhelminth genomes and transcriptomes and find that all platyhelminth parasites (from classes Cestoda and Trematoda) conform to a biochemical scenario involving, exclusively, a selenium-dependent linked thioredoxin-glutathione system having TGR as a central redox hub.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • Class Cestoda (paracitic flatworms), commonly known as the tapeworms consists of long (6m or 20 ft.), soft-bodied, legless invertebrates with bilateral symmetry.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

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