Word.ws English Dictionary

tapeworms

tapeworms is the plural of tapeworm.

tapeworms is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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...

See all 5 meanings of tapeworm

Phrases with tapeworms

Questions about tapeworms

What is tapeworms the plural of?
Tapeworms is the plural of tapeworm.

Words near tapeworms in the dictionary

  1. tapeweeds
  2. tapework
  3. tapeworm
  4. tapewormed
  5. tapeworming
  6. tapeworms
  7. tapewormy
  8. tapezine
  9. tapezines
  10. taphephobia
  11. Taphian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tapeworms (page history and authors); tapeworm (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tapeworms.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tapeworms. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.