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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of tapeworms, in which, in the hydatid state, the tænia-heads bud in special brood-capsules in such a way that their invagination is turned toward the lumen of the vesicle, as in the echinococcus of Tænia echinococcus. Claus.
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