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taenicides

taenicides is the plural 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

Questions about taenicides

What is taenicides the plural of?
Taenicides is the plural of taenicide.

Words near taenicides in the dictionary

  1. taeniases
  2. taeniasis
  3. taeniate
  4. taenicidal
  5. taenicide
  6. taenicides
  7. taenidia
  8. taenidial
  9. taenidium
  10. taeniform
  11. taenifuge

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