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tape-worm

tape-worm is the alternative spelling of tapeworm.

Meaning of tapeworm

Noun

tapeworm (countable and uncountable, plural tapeworms)

  1. (countable) Any parasitical worm of the class or infraclass Cestoda, which infests the intestines of animals, including humans, often infecting different host species during their life cycle.
    1. (countable) A broad fish tapeworm, Diphyllobothrium latum.
  2. (uncountable) Infection by tapeworms.
    • We used to have a lot of tapeworm down in my neck of the woods, but we don't have much now.1967, Senator Hill, United States. Congress. Senate, Labor--Health, Education, and Welfare appropriations for 1968: Hearings before the subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, volume 8, page...

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Forms of tape-worm

pluraltape-worms

Questions about tape-worm

What is tape-worm the alternative spelling of?
Tape-worm is the alternative spelling of tapeworm.

Words near tape-worm in the dictionary

  1. tape-outs
  2. tape-record
  3. tape-recorded
  4. tape-recording
  5. tape-records
  6. tape-worm
  7. tape-worms
  8. tapeable
  9. Tapeats
  10. tapeball
  11. tapeballs

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