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teniacide

teniacide is the alternative spelling 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 teniacide

pluralteniacides

Questions about teniacide

What is teniacide the alternative spelling of?
Teniacide is the alternative spelling of taenicide.

Words near teniacide in the dictionary

  1. Tenharim
  2. Tenhoff
  3. Tenhoffs
  4. tenia
  5. teniacidal
  6. teniacide
  7. teniacides
  8. teniae
  9. teniafuge
  10. teniafuges
  11. tenias

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