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scolexes

scolexes is the plural of scolex.

Meaning of scolex

Noun

scolex (plural scolices or scoleces or scolexes)

  1. The structure at the front end of a tapeworm which, in the adult, has suckers and hooks by which it attaches itself to a host.
    • The head, with the circle of hooklets and the four suckers, is then formed at the anterior part of the embryo, constituting now the scolex of Van Beneden.1859, Robert Bentley Todd, The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology

Questions about scolexes

What is scolexes the plural of?
Scolexes is the plural of scolex.

Words near scolexes in the dictionary

  1. scolecophidians
  2. scolecospore
  3. scolecospores
  4. Scoles
  5. scolex
  6. scolexes
  7. scolexin
  8. scolia
  9. scolices
  10. scolicidal
  11. scolie

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