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tænicide

tænicide is the obsolete form of taenicide.

Meaning of taenicide

Noun

taenicide (plural taenicides)

  1. A medicine that destroys tapeworms.
    • The practice in Ethiopia of eating raw meat...has given rise...to a high incidence of taenia, or tapeworm. ... The commonest traditional taenicide was the blood-red flower of the kosso tree...The Traditional Taenicides of Ethiopia, by Richard Pankhust, in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, XXIV(3):323-334, 1969

Forms of tænicide

pluraltænicides

Questions about tænicide

What is tænicide the obsolete form of?
Tænicide is the obsolete form of taenicide.

Words near tænicide in the dictionary

  1. tædium
  2. tædium vitæ
  3. tænia
  4. tænias
  5. tæniasis
  6. tænicide
  7. tæniæ
  8. Tébessa
  9. Témiscamingue
  10. Tétouan
  11. Têng-fêng

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