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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In general, of or pertaining to the Cestoidea; being or resembling a tapeworm; tæniate.
  • More particularly, applied to the adult in distinction from the cystic state of a tænia, not cysticercoid nor hydatid, as a tapeworm.
  • Also cestoideous.
  • noun One of the Cestoidea. Also called cestoidean.

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

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea.

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

  • noun Any of the parasitic flatworms of the class Cestoda.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea; cestoidean

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