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pork tapeworms

pork tapeworms is the plural of pork tapeworm.

Meaning of pork tapeworm

Noun

pork tapeworm (plural pork tapeworms)

  1. A species of parasitic flatworm, Taenia solium, which uses pigs as an intermediate host.
    • When larvae of Taenia solium, the pork tapeworm, penetrate the human central nervous system they cause neurocysticercosis, a particularly nasty form of epilepsy.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 91

Questions about pork tapeworms

What is pork tapeworms the plural of?
Pork tapeworms is the plural of pork tapeworm.

Words near pork tapeworms in the dictionary

  1. pork steaks
  2. pork sung
  3. pork sword
  4. pork swords
  5. pork tapeworm
  6. pork tapeworms
  7. pork up
  8. pork Wellington
  9. pork Wellingtons
  10. pork-barrel
  11. pork-barreling

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